Margaret Stohl Quotes

I was very shy - I didn't speak to anyone outside of my family until the fourth grade.

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• I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • Want
  • End

• Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • Plan

• The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Women
  • Democracy
  • Road

• I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Strong

• I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Devil
  • Afraid

• Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Nice
  • Strangers
  • Coming Up

• The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.

  

  Garik Israelian
  • Way
  • Listen
  • Radio

• There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.

  

  Walead Beshty
  • Up
  • Relationship
  • Image

• I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Death

• English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Men
  • Trying
  • American

• I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Up
  • Experience

• I listen to music to when I'm feeling a certain way or to make myself feel a certain way. So why not make my own music inspired by true emotions?

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Music
  • Why
  • True

• We are all born mad. Some remain so.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Funny
  • Mad
  • Born

• Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Good
  • Different
  • Mood

• Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.

  

  N. Robert Hammer
  • Job
  • Strong
  • Growth

• The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Experience

• Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Strong
  • Change
  • Me

• You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Work
  • Want
  • Yourself

• If, in the name of liberty, we allow individuals to act in a way that damages the wellbeing of the whole, it will inevitably mean the breakdown of mutuality, thereby changing the very nature of our society.

  

  David Blunkett
  • Nature
  • Society

• We've been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. We're finally coming into this moment where it's coming inside our body for the first time in history.

  

  Daniel H. Wilson
  • Time
  • History
  • Technology

• There are some terrorist organizations, there are some organized crime organizations, that launder money through charities and make donations to charities. That's not the purpose of charitable donations in Canada, so we're becoming increasingly strict on the subject.

  

  Jim Flaherty
  • Money
  • Purpose

• I think if I could do it over again - as much as I loved meeting the people I did on the films after 'Matilda' - I wish that I had stopped after 'Matilda.' I wish that I had just focused on my own life for a while.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • Wish

• One day, I went to buy something for my dad at the shops, and I heard a song by Nat King Cole called 'Stardust Melody.' It was like I went into a trance or something. I forgot all about my dad sending me to the shop. When I got home, I explained to him what happened. I thought I was going to get a whipping, but he understood.

  

  Desmond Dekker
  • Home
  • Song
  • Dad

• I was very shy - I didn't speak to anyone outside of my family until the fourth grade.

  

  Margaret Stohl
  • Family