Charlotte Whitton Quotes

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

Charlotte Whitton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: March 8, 1896 - January 25, 1975

Topics

SuccessFailureYouAchieveDeal

People misunderstand what a police state is. It isn't a country where the police strut around in jackboots; it's a country where the police can do anything they like. Similarly, a security state is one in which the security establishment can do anything it likes.

John Lanchester

PolicePeopleSecurityCountryWhere

Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

Andy Rooney

GrandchildrenNever ForgetForget

'Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through.

Michael Imperioli

PoliceCityStoryLandscapeUnique

I just want to find some inner peace, and I think I'm getting there, slowly but surely.

Toni Collette

PeaceThinkFindWantInner Peace

Most childhoods are full of anxiety, but that tends to get smoothed over, so you have a sense of nostalgia.

Romesh Gunesekera

AnxietyYouNostalgiaOverGetMost

The reason I don't make more movies is because it's really hard to find ideas that I go, 'Yeah, I could spend two years of my life doing this.' Mostly what I do is say no to movies because I go, 'Maybe I would see that, but I don't think I could spend two years on it. I'd go nuts.'

Jonathan Mostow

LifeIdeasThinkMy LifeDoingFind

You can't have a value structure without a hierarchy. They're the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another.

Jordan Peterson

ValueYouStructureOverWithout

Very early on, I was writing stories, and I was amazed at Spielberg's movies when I was young. Coming from the countryside, I was so impressed with the way he was able to tell stories and the way he was able to deal with le merveilleux - the wonders.

Denis Villeneuve

WritingEarlyYoungMoviesWayTell

By strengthening the economy, providing job opportunity and meeting the needs of working families, we can ensure the continued prosperity of our nation.

Christopher Dodd

OpportunityJobMeetingProsperity

I'm very involved in the production of my songs. I know what I like and what I don't like.

Astrid S

KnowProductionInvolvedLikeSongs

It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.

Phil Bredesen

HealthMoneyCareMoreReformDump

I think many of the ideas that opened up in the '60s got implemented in the '70s and that certain minority voices that were not being heard in the '60s, like women and gay people, were being heard in the '70s. Black Civil Rights had also found its foothold, and those ideas were also very pertinent.

Todd Haynes

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