Chris Pine Quotes

Musical theater is great; you get painted up, you get to play princesses and witches, and you sing. The joy alone of that can really carry a lot.

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• Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Hope

• Spare no expense to save money on this one.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Money
  • Save
  • Expense

• It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Time
  • Different
  • Fun

• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Insult
  • Okay
  • Principal

• I don't care about how much other actors get.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Care
  • Other
  • How

• Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Strong

• I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Serious

• I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Taken
  • Industry
  • Seriously

• We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • America
  • Ideas
  • Democracy

• Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Wisdom
  • Mistake
  • Enemy

• Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • World
  • Opportunity

• I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Me
  • Fortunate
  • Miss

• When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Good
  • God
  • Relationship

• All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Work
  • Effort
  • Growth

• I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Way
  • Never
  • Strange

• There are positives to moving around and changing companies: you put things in perspective; you can compare living and working conditions. Living in one city, you tend to take things for granted; your view is much more narrow. In Europe, a dancer can leave for a year and still keep her original contract.

  

  Carla Korbes
  • City
  • Moving
  • Perspective

• If you keep telling a youngster he is no good, he might begin to doubt himself. A pat on the back could bring the very best out of him.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Good
  • Best
  • Doubt

• Prediction is certainly a valuable goal in science, but not the only one. Explanation is also important, and there are plenty of sciences that do a lot of explaining and not much predicting.

  

  Eric Maskin
  • Important
  • Science

• May we all, as a nation of believers, fight for the achievement of America; may we make sacrifices worthy of those proud men and women who fought for us, labored for us, bled soil from the beaches of Normandy to the fields of Gettysburg for us.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Men
  • Women
  • May

• A 3K word story might well be done in some caffeine-and-nicotine-fuelled 36 hour session, and at the end of it, there'll be a few passes of editing required, but I basically have a polished draft.

  

  Hal Duncan
  • Done

• My wife is the sweetest, most even-keeled person ever. A mood swing to her is like, 'Oh, I'm uncomfortable.'

  

  Bill Hader
  • Wife
  • Mood

• If we accept that we are all cut from the same genetic cloth, all cultures share the same genius. And whether that genius is placed into technological wizardry which has been our great achievement, or, by contrast, placed into the unraveling of complex threads of memory inherent in a myth is simply a matter of choice.

  

  Wade Davis
  • Great
  • Choices
  • Memories

• Musical theater is great; you get painted up, you get to play princesses and witches, and you sing. The joy alone of that can really carry a lot.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Up
  • Great
  • Alone