Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes

My mum told me once I was a Hindu.

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• The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.

  

  Harry Browne
  • English
  • Chinese
  • Constitution

• When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Soul
  • Religion
  • Beauty

• NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Security
  • NATO
  • Cornerstone

• I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Dad

• I don't have any nicknames.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Any
  • Nicknames

• My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Women
  • Children
  • Father

• A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • People
  • Time
  • Me

• One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Up
  • Memories
  • Internet

• The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Work
  • Limit

• True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • People
  • Long
  • True

• I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.

  

  Vince Carter
  • Want
  • Respect
  • Need

• The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.

  

  Iman
  • You
  • Day
  • Settle

• I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Vision
  • Talk
  • Forward

• The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Help

• Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

  

  O. Henry
  • Life
  • Smiles
  • Sniffles

• I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like '8 Mile.' I used to rap battle.

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • Acting
  • Rap
  • New York

• I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Fun
  • Me

• I just don't think the title 'MJ's daughter' fits me.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • Think
  • Me
  • Daughter

• I'm really boring. I get up early. I go to bed early. I don't smoke or drink. I mean, I'll eat a cupcake. I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Writing
  • Crazy
  • Person

• If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • You
  • Nothing

• For each project I do, I try to surprise myself, do the unexpected, and change my own status quo. From the One Laptop Per Child, the Herman Miller Sayl, or the latest Movado watch collection, there is always an insecurity about being able to do something important. I think each of those projects makes me feel like we have progressed.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Important
  • Change
  • Myself

• I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Know
  • Me
  • Learn

• My dad doesn't hug me enough!

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Enough

• My mum told me once I was a Hindu.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Me
  • Once
  • Hindu