Brad Holland Quotes

I didn't want to go to college - I was bored by junior high. So I was in church one day, staring at the stained glass windows and thinking about things, when suddenly I decided that if I could start selling cartoons to magazines, they'd let me quit high school.

Brad Holland

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DaySchoolCollegeMeStartChurch

I did it all, singing, the harp, piano. But I was so shy, I'd wake up at six to practice piano because I didn't want anyone to hear me play. But then I'd do a big show in school where everyone would see me, and that was actually alright.

Jessie Buckley

SchoolPracticeMeSingingWake Up

I hate small talk! I can't do it.

Amanda de Cadenet

HateSmallTalkSmall Talk

I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be associated with any of them.

Steven Wright

PoliticsWantPoliticiansLikeThem

I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me.

Shirley Manson

MeMy OwnMeanEveryoneOwnAround

People idealise their animals, and at the same time they patronisingly overlook a dog's natural life - biting fleas, burying bones, rolling in garbage, barking up an empty tree all night... But what do they do themselves? Bury stuff that will rot in secret and then dig it up and bury it again and rant and rave under empty trees!

Tove Jansson

LifeDogTimeTreePeopleNight

I always entertain great hopes.

Robert Frost

HopeGreatAlwaysHopesEntertain

I don't understand people who just live to exist, live to be OK. Live to be regular, live to be average. It doesn't make any sense to me. I live to be the best. I don't live to be good. You only get one life, and I live to be great. I live to be special.

Luke Rockhold

LifeGoodLiveGreatBestPeople

Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows, and necessity is the resultant of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.

Jose Rizal

WorldPowerfulEthicalNecessitySet

European leaders cannot afford to be afraid. The refugee crisis is not one from which they can opt out. No magic wand will empower leaders to transport more than a million people back across the Aegean and the Bosphorus to Mosul and Aleppo, or across the Mediterranean to Eritrea, Somalia, and Sudan.

Jose Angel Gurria

PeopleMagicBackCrisisEmpower

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

Dolly Parton

LordDidThank

Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.

Dora Russell

WomenControlPoorBirthFirstWho

I never sought to play monsters in films.

Doug Jones

PlayNeverMonstersSoughtFilms

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