Margot Kidder Quotes

My pro-choice activism keeps me busy.

Margot Kidder

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• Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Tradition
  • Stronger
  • Indians

• Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Trying
  • Question
  • Band

• I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • City
  • New York

• I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • Live
  • Simple

• I would love to go to the Himalayas and cross over into Nepal to do the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Love
  • Cross
  • Railway

• I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Fiction
  • Own
  • My Own

• I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Language

• He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• My dad had premature gray. I was always the one with the most energy, the one who continued to practice longer. I ran up and down the stairs of different stadiums. I didn't feel the need to cover up the fact that I was losing my hair or it was graying. When you're on a team, age is only a factor when you're talking in the locker room.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Up
  • Different
  • Age

• You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Author

• Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Good
  • True
  • Movie

• I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Teacher
  • Students
  • Negative

• My tenure at 'The Daily Show' started during the decade after September 11, and fear of Muslims was at an all-time high. Politicians and the media seemed to dial the fright, mistrust, and animosity up to a fever pitch to gain votes and ratings.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Up
  • Time
  • High

• For me it's very important to turn Kiev into one of the main centers of contemporary art in the world. There is New York. There's London. And there will be Kiev. Everyone will come and say, 'Wow!'

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • World
  • Important
  • Art

• He sat down next door in the seat she had left and watched the grim suburbs of Philadelphia showing their sores, like beggars, to the rich train.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • She
  • Door

• Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Mad

• By nation of origin of our people, by 2050, America will be a Third World country. Our great cities will all look like Los Angeles today. Los Angeles and the cities of the Southwest will look like Juarez and Tijuana...

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• My mother was pregnant with me while she was in prison. She was her own attorney, never been to law school. She was facing 300 and something odd years. One black woman, pregnant, beat the case. That just goes to show you the strength of a black woman and the strength of the oppressed.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Mother
  • Black
  • Law

• Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Way
  • Quality

• I've been told there's a special golden shelf, in the secret vault kept at the back of every bookstore in America, that contains the Bible, 'War and Peace,' and 'Driving Mr. Albert.'

  

  Michael Paterniti
  • America
  • Driving
  • Special

• I cry watching 'Camille' with Greta Garbo. I have to say that - while it might sound weird - it will be weird, but there is one movie I always laugh in, and at the end of the movie, I always cry, and I saw it, like, 10 times. It's 'Step Brothers.'

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Movie
  • Weird

• Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.

  

  William P. Young
  • Persons
  • Forget
  • Forgiveness

• Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • River
  • Bridge
  • Build

• My pro-choice activism keeps me busy.

  

  Margot Kidder