Elijah Wood Quotes

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.

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• I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Me

• Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • World
  • Live
  • Real

• I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Character
  • Me
  • Roles

• The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Books
  • Shame

• I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • World
  • Great
  • Women

• For Christmas 1999, my husband surprised me with a trip to Disney World. Along with our boys, we were standing on the roof of the Contemporary Hotel at midnight on New Year's Eve 2000 watching fireworks explode over every amusement park in Orlando. It was a magical way to celebrate the millennial, and a never-to-be-forgotten Christmas present.

  

  Karen Robards
  • World
  • Present
  • Husband

• Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • World
  • Country
  • Change

• I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Life
  • Different
  • Always

• I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Relationship
  • Optimist
  • European

• My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • People
  • World
  • Business

• We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Different
  • Nature

• When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • World
  • Television
  • Fair

• In high school, I was doing my magazine 'Rookie' and a lot of writing, and I became a little less interested in the fashion world. I was approached by an agent for writing, and I said I wanted to act as well. They sent me scripts, and then I got my first Broadway play, 'This Is Our Youth'.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • World
  • Writing
  • School

• I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

  

  Beck
  • Thing
  • Poem
  • Grammys

• Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Good
  • Society
  • Marriage

• I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • World
  • Like
  • Environmental

• Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.

  

  Virginia Satir
  • Different
  • Real
  • Beautiful

• This is a dream from when I was kid. I'm playing tennis almost 18 years, and of course everybody's dream is to play the final of a Grand Slam.

  

  Agnieszka Radwanska
  • Dream
  • Tennis

• The danger of a rock band is repeating oneself. It's our greatest fear - that it evolves into the myopia of a semi-successful band that's in love with its own shadow.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Fear
  • Band
  • Rock

• And if there were any such, they have never been condemned to slavery by any who are proper judges, or had any authority to act in the affair.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Never
  • Slavery
  • Condemned

• For the success, Although particular, shall give a scantling Of good or bad unto the general; And in such indexes, although small pricks To their subsequent volumes, there is seen The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come at large.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Book
  • Giving
  • Baby

• I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • World
  • Different
  • Society