Caroline Corr Quotes

I really like to have a bit of direction, you know?

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• Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Book
  • Hands
  • Saying

• It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.

  

  Saint-John Perse
  • Age
  • Guilty
  • Conscience

• My voice is distinctive: there's a rhythm to it, and also, it's funny. I was just blessed with a funny-sounding voice.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Funny
  • Voice
  • Blessed

• I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • Think
  • Irish

• I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Read
  • Surprised

• The drills we do, where you're telling kids to memorize things, don't actually work. What works is engaging them and letting them do things and discover things.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Work
  • Kids
  • You

• Children are all foreigners.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Children
  • Foreigners

• Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Life
  • You
  • Easy

• I teach at the Stanford Business School, and about half of my students are foreign, many of whom, I hope, will stay and build businesses in U.S. But I must tell you that they also have opportunities to come back to India and start great companies and operations.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Great
  • School
  • Business

• When I was living in the projects, I had a mop stick for my horse. I wanted to be Gene Autry or Roy Rogers, so I would ride my mop through the projects.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Horse
  • Living
  • Ride

• I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.

  

  Walter Alston
  • Job
  • Game
  • Worry

• What I really honestly want is just to be working steadily... I would love to just be on a great TV show and have it run for awhile.

  

  Carla Gallo
  • Great
  • Love
  • Want

• Creating sustainable jobs means doubling down on Baltimore's formidable strengths.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Down
  • Creating
  • Sustainable

• I moderated a panel focusing just on women and the specific challenges that women entrepreneurs face. And we found that around the world, the challenges are the same, whether it is gaining access to capital, risk-taking, or the ability to expand beyond a small business and grow.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • World
  • Women
  • Business

• It's very difficult to escape your background. You know, I don't think it's necessary to even try to escape it. More and more, I start to think that it's necessary to see exactly what it is that you inherited on both ends of the stick: your timidity, your courage, your self-deceit, and your honesty - and all the rest of it.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Rest
  • Courage
  • Start

• In this type of the ... every five years, the secularism is changing the meaning. So now I am thinking that I must come with a new meaning of the secularism.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Thinking

• A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Philosophical

• I think that these are the kinds of things that we can debate vigorously. We don't have to ultimately divide over them and I think when we debate, we should do so in a collegial fashion, with a great deal of gentleness and humbleness, recognizing that we can learn from one another. Again, even with people who have moved over from the Kingdom of Christ to the kingdom of the cults, we need to treat them with love and with gentleness and with a heart to restore them to proper life and doctrine.

  

  Hank Hanegraaff
  • Fashion
  • Learn
  • Debate

• When someone isn't ready we must not try to force them out. People are being bullied and committing suicide because they're gay and it's horrible.

  

  Ricky Martin
  • People
  • Gay
  • Suicide

• I have no trouble sleeping.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Trouble
  • Sleeping

• If something works, you shouldn't do it again. We want to do something that is new, original - something where there's a good chance of failure.

  

  Ed Catmull
  • Good
  • Failure

• Because you're responsible for [children]. You are there to protect them, not possess them. I tell them, "Watch me and you might learn something."

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Children
  • Protect
  • Responsible

• I really like to have a bit of direction, you know?

  

  Caroline Corr