Clemantine Wamariya Quotes

Everything I own in my closet has a story. Stuff is not just stuff - things were given to me with love.

Clemantine Wamariya

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• I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Hate
  • Name
  • Annoying

• I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Life
  • Together
  • Best

• I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Think

• A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • High
  • Man
  • Woman

• The devil made me do it.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Me
  • Made
  • Devil

• I was born in East Germany, before the wall came down. We sort of escaped, I guess. I grew up all over the place. Germany, London, back and forth between Minnesota and Germany. I was sort of an army brat, but not in the army.

  

  Falk Hentschel
  • Up
  • Wall
  • Army

• I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Religion
  • Seriously
  • Effect

• Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Progress
  • Life Is A

• The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Women
  • Confidence
  • Kindness

• I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Different
  • Character

• The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • True
  • Best
  • Optimist

• I danced with Jacques d'Amboise. At that time, he was the tallest man in the company. So it was a different kind of choreography. It was lyrical.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Time
  • Different
  • Man

• A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Life
  • Good
  • Job

• Never give up, and never give in.

  

  Hal Newhouser
  • Up
  • Never
  • Give

• I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Job
  • Health

• I don't have a car in Manhattan because you have to choose between a car and an apartment. It's that expensive.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • You
  • Car
  • Choose

• You spend enough time with someone, you're going to have your run-ins.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • You
  • Enough

• 'Perfect Sense' is an extremely serious film, and I am an extremely serious film-maker who is trying to explore the medium in original and interesting ways.

  

  David MacKenzie
  • Trying
  • Interesting
  • Perfect

• If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive.

  

  Brian Molko Placebo
  • Drug
  • Addictive
  • Placebo

• Never let your actors go before they are satisfied with a scene.

  

  Catherine Corsini
  • Actors
  • Scene
  • Satisfied

• If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord be the keeper of your soul. If I knew that this would be the last time you pass through this door, I’d embrace you, kiss you, and call you back for one more. If I knew that this would be the last time I would hear your voice, I’d take hold of each word to be able to hear it over and over again. If I knew this is the last time I see you, I’d tell you I love you, and would not just assume foolishly you know it already.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Soul
  • Lord
  • Pray

• I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created.

  

  Michael Gove
  • Different
  • Expectations
  • Starting

• Everything I own in my closet has a story. Stuff is not just stuff - things were given to me with love.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya