Aimee Mullins Quotes

If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.

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• We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Great
  • Long

• It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.

  

  Wayne Wonder
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Song

• To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Experience
  • Together
  • Future

• All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Life
  • Men
  • Different

• Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Experience
  • You
  • Looking

• I don't believe in regret.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Believe
  • Regret

• I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Time
  • Good
  • Experience

• The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Experience
  • Wish
  • Player

• I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Experience
  • Wife
  • Doing

• My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Different
  • She
  • Experience

• I was on the beach every summer. That was the pleasant part of my childhood because we were right by the sea. We'd take a picnic, and I'd spend hours in the water until I turned blue. You couldn't get me out of there.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Water
  • Childhood
  • Sea

• The Internet is changing what entertainment and sports is. It's not just a few people authoring an experience for others. It's really growing out of what everybody does.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Experience
  • Growing

• Today's kitchen is all about a well-planned space that makes cooking a completely interactive experience among family and friends.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Family
  • Experience
  • Friends

• I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Comedy
  • Childhood
  • Doing

• Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Experience
  • House
  • Breakfast

• What really interests me is how a woman who has had a bad experience with a man comes through it and gets a new life. I feel you have to be positive. You have to say, 'Look, okay, he's ditched you, but there's life after.'

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Bad

• Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Experience
  • Mistakes
  • Name

• I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax or as a corroboration, but when they are long and frequent, they seriously weaken the effect of a book. We lose sight of the writer - he scatters our sympathy among others than himself - and the ideas which he himself advances are not knit together with our impression of his personality.

  

  George Eliot
  • Book
  • Personality
  • Sympathy

• I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me, and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five different sports: balloons, airplanes, airships, gliders, and sailboats.

  

  Steve Fossett
  • Sports
  • Result
  • Projects

• I grew up like every young kid I know, who wants to be a cop and wants to be a firefighter, so this lifestyle that I've chosen happens to offer that in small doses in front of the camera. I want to take advantage of that. Hopefully I can play many, many different occupations.

  

  Ryan Guzman
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Lifestyle

• Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.

  

  Norman Maclean
  • Enemy
  • Friendship
  • Silent

• If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.

  

  Aimee Mullins
  • Experience
  • Childhood