Margaret Qualley Quotes

It was funny being at high school and also grocery shopping and having a job. Other kids were going home to their parents, who were doing their laundry, and I was like, 'Wait, what?' I was super isolated. I was 16, alone in New York, and modelling.

Margaret Qualley

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• Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Life
  • Work
  • Help

• Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Man

• The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • Life
  • Up
  • School

• There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • Life
  • Goal
  • Stage

• The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Love
  • Know
  • Tolerance

• Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • World
  • Together
  • Democracy

• Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.

  

  Karen McCarthy
  • Career
  • Others
  • Ahead

• The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Young
  • Won
  • Claim

• Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Evil

• 'SVU' is one of my favorite shows. When I got the call to appear and play myself, I jumped at the chance. Obviously, I went over my lines, but playing yourself is a really great way to get your feet wet in the acting field. I enjoyed being on set and learning as much as I could about the scripted world.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • World
  • Great
  • Learning

• A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Boy
  • Independent
  • Ice

• There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Safety
  • Will
  • Finger

• San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • High
  • Health
  • Challenges

• This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • War
  • Military
  • Period

• I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Art
  • Weird
  • Kid

• The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Guitarist
  • Taylor
  • Coleman

• I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Look
  • Forward
  • Sure

• I wanted to get out in the world, have a great job, make my mark, and see how far I could go. And I wanted to make good on the philosophy my mother drilled into us with all the subtlety of a Lady Gaga performance. I got it loud and clear. I would need to succeed, and then I could possibly be happy.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• When you give chief executives too much compensation in stock options, they concentrate too much on the stock price, and there is a perverse incentive to raise the stock price, particularly when the chief executive wants to exercise his own options.

  

  George Akerlof
  • Exercise
  • Stock

• In middle school, I had an '87 Regal. That was unheard of.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • School
  • Middle School

• Like the Governor-General, when asked what you enjoy most about the job my tendency is to say "today", because of the insights you get into our nation and because of the privileged contact you have with so many people.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Job
  • Nation
  • Governor-General

• It was funny being at high school and also grocery shopping and having a job. Other kids were going home to their parents, who were doing their laundry, and I was like, 'Wait, what?' I was super isolated. I was 16, alone in New York, and modelling.

  

  Margaret Qualley
  • School
  • Home
  • Job