Siri Hustvedt Quotes

Children are not in a position to assess risk and safety; it must be done for them, and it must be done carefully.

Siri Hustvedt

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ChildrenSafetyDoneRiskPosition

I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.

Joel Rosenberg

WomenMenSimpleManSleepEnough

I think more about the family now. That's an interesting progression for me.

John Denver

FamilyMeThinkInterestingNow

I think the way to maximize not just your leadership but your ability to influence your team is whatever you can do that helps the team perform at a really high level.

Andrew Whitworth

LeadershipTeamInfluenceThinkYou

One of my early money mistakes was getting fired from the first acting job I ever had. I was cast in a play as the lead, and I got fired three nights after the open.

Michael Imperioli

MoneyJobMistakesEarlyActing

When I was a little girl, I did not listen to music much. I did not think that one day I would become a rapper. I was born in a very traditional and religious family. Being a female was destroying my dreams. Slowly, first through poetry and then music, I began to find ways to share my thoughts and feelings, talk to my family and to the world.

Sonita Alizadeh

FamilyDreamsMusicGirlDayPoetry

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

Ron Reagan

FutureIgnoranceCompassionPast

The most important advances, the qualitative leaps, are the least predictable. Not even the best scientists predicted the impact of nuclear physics, and everyday consumer items such as the iPhone would have seemed magic back in the 1950s.

Martin Rees

BestImpactMagicPhysicsBack

I've always felt a bit of an outsider. It used to worry me that, in terms of TV, I did not look like 'the girlfriend' or 'the daughter'. That pushed me to write my own stuff, as I thought no one else was going to write me a lead in the sitcom.

Miranda Hart

DaughterMeThoughtWorryLookOwn

People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.

Jose Gonzalez

SmilePeopleMeSeriousCompany

When people ask me why I'm amazed at what Barack Obama has accomplished, I tell them it's not because of what most of America and the world sees and knows of his history. It's because I witnessed what I can only describe as a bizarre turn of events that thrust him into position to even become a U.S. senator.

Don Lemon

HistoryPeopleMeWorldAmericaWhy

Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.

Christina Hoff Sommers

PowerfulGradesStudentRunMore

Any time I get to play Dick Casablancas is always a pleasure.

Ryan Hansen

TimePlayAlwaysPleasureGetAny

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