c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
I prefer a positive view of freedom, drawing on another tradition of political thinking that goes all the way back to the ancient Greek polis.
— David Blunkett
Positive characterizations are complex characterizations. That's all we need to know. They shouldn't be saccharine. They shouldn't feel like medicine.
— Ava DuVernay
You know, often films that are deemed positive, nobody wants to see them.
— Ava DuVernay
In Hollywood, there is one dominant voice. It is a white, male, straight gaze. When I talk about positive portrayals of black people and women, I'm saying complexity. I'm not saying goody-two-shoes, everything's okay. No. The positive view of me is to see me as I am: the 'good,' the 'bad,' the gray. That is a positive portrayal.
— Ava DuVernay
'Yes' is the mother of all positive words, next to 'love.' Maybe 'love' is the father of all positive words.
— Jason Mraz
When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn't vote for you.
— Tammy Duckworth
I like my social media space to be somewhere very positive... I like to just be able to just share any images they see, or a piece of art or an item of clothing, and get to share that with the world.
— Poppy Delevingne
I think the best way to fight your detractors is to produce positive results and not think about them, but think about winning the hearts and minds of North Carolinians - or Americans - on good policy.
— Thom Tillis
A focus on regulatory overreach, things that the benefit doesn't outweigh the cost, is probably the single greatest opportunity we have for having a positive impact on job creation.
— Thom Tillis
Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.
— Edmund White
Doing and making positive programming for young people is so important to me, and I will keep doing it.
— Zendaya
The proper governmental policy in a depression is strict laissez-faire, including stringent budget slashing, and coupled perhaps with positive encouragement for credit contraction.
— Murray Rothbard
Contrary to popular mythology, the best and most durable relationships are based not on vulnerability or passion but on a conjugation of positive attributes, a meeting of mind, body and soul that is all the more powerful as it is not weighed down with neediness and unreasonable expectation.
— Mariella Frostrup
Translating any insights I have for strangers' lives into positive action in my own has proved a challenge. While I've learned a lot about what everyone else is thinking, I fail miserably to use such knowledge in my private relationships.
— Mariella Frostrup
When did the word 'compromise' get compromised? When did the negative connotations of 'He was caught in a compromising position' or 'She compromised her ethics' replace the positive connotations of 'They reached a compromise'?
— Deborah Tannen
I have had positive experiences with cameras. When I have been asked to join experiments using cameras in the courtroom, I have participated; I have volunteered.
— Sonia Sotomayor
If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment.
— Sonia Sotomayor
If you look at the history of Wonder Woman, you look at the iconography, the images that have kept her alive - they're not dark. The thing I think is so important to always keep in mind about her is how positive and bright and shiny she is - very much in the same way that Superman has been.
— Patty Jenkins
Secretariat was just ridiculously endowed with every positive quality that a person would seek out in a non-human. He was very aware of his environment he surveyed the terrain before he ran and would look people in the eye. 
— Diane Lane
But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.
— Henry Louis Gates
So many of our young women today, they're growing up without a father, but they're still thirsty for that and desiring positive male love.
— Hill Harper
Whenever there's an opportunity to celebrate the written word and celebrate the folks that read the written word, and, I think, to encourage other writers to write and encourage folks to read more and get connected to it in a personal way, it's a positive thing.
— Hill Harper
Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when I'm in a space that is not positive.
— Janet Jackson
I try to be positive. I speak to my players about how we have to play, respect the rules. What I have done is always be positive.
— Pep Guardiola
Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times.
— Sienna Miller
I want to work with Peter Robinson as first minister in a positive, constructive way and leave the elections to the electorate.
— Martin McGuinness
It is mistaken to claim that global problems will be solved more quickly if only researchers would abandon their quest to understand the universe and knuckle down to work on an agenda of public or political concerns. These are not 'either/or' options - indeed, there is a positive symbiosis between them.
— Martin Rees
A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peoples of Palestine and Israel, as well as on the region and the international community.
— Recep Tayyip Erdogan
One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary of good and bad has been replaced by the self-help lexicon of positive and negative thinking.
— Julian Baggini
Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that's a negative, but I think it's a real positive. You have the ball in your hand every time when you're a quarterback. Whether you're handing it off or throwing to somebody, I think that's extremely important.
— Nick Saban
I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn't have had a child.
— Grace Jones
My mother's songs are really turning out to be masterpieces. I have inherited this incredible legacy and am so fortunate to bathe in her sensibilities. It is tinged with tragedy. I'd much rather she was here in person, but there is still a positive force to come out of her death and that is having the gift of music that she gave.
— Rufus Wainwright
However much some journalists may criticize me, I know that I look, feel, and behave several decades younger than my actual age, and much of that is because I believe you are what you think you are. This is called positive affirmation, and it's a really strong tool.
— Joan Collins
I think people are so immersed in the anti-Scientology mindset by consuming tabloid media and stories about space aliens. It's baffling. When I say I want to see a more positive side of the church, all I'm saying is I want to get past these headlines that talk about aliens and Tom Cruise jumping on a sofa.
— Louis Theroux
I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
— Karen Salmansohn
One tech-related concern with religion is that it appears to be a positive feedback loop to the accelerating rich-poor gap, as the disenfranchised opt out of modernity.
— Steve Jurvetson
I'm pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best.
— Jurgen Klopp
I'm usually always very happy and funny and positive. It's only when I'm tired that I get a little low energy.
— Nargis Fakhri
You need to train your brain to be positive.
— Nargis Fakhri
The best way to prevent the homegrown-inspired attacks is literally positive engagement with Muslim communities. Making sure that any immigrant population that comes into America assimilates, becomes part of our culture. That has been our history; it has made us strong.
— Ron Johnson
I'm a positive guy, even if I don't smile a lot.
— James Arthur
Is detachment the answer to freedom? No, because detachment is negative - it is to be without. The answer must be positive - I must replace what I have with something better.
— Mother Angelica
I never want to record something that I'm not proud of just because I think it might be a big hit. There's no positive about that because if you record a song you hate and it's a big hit, then you're singing a song every night that you hate. And if you record a song that you hate and it isn't a hit, then you sold out for no reason.
— Trisha Yearwood
Staying consistent with positive habits can be a challenge.
— Lewis Howes
'MMMbop' ultimately is about trying to see the positive in the negative, trying to see the positive relationships you'll have the in the face of challenge and strife.
— Isaac Hanson
I think, as athletes, we've been given a platform, and we can use it in a lot of different ways. We can use it for negative. We can use it for positive. We can be indifferent. But if you've been given a platform, I think God is pleased when you share... His truth in love.
— Benjamin Watson
A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
— Wendy Kopp
You don't have to be positive all the time.
— Amy Purdy
Talking about income inequality, even if you're not on the Forbes 400 list, can make us feel uncomfortable. It feels less positive, less optimistic, to talk about how the pie is sliced than to think about how to make the pie bigger.
— Chrystia Freeland
The main point of democracy is to deliver positive results for the majority.
— Chrystia Freeland
Kids need role models, whether it's baseball players, actors or musicians: people to bring a little positive light into their hearts and minds. We need to be a little kinder to those people because it's not easy being that role model, looked upon as something we are all incapable of being - too perfect.
— David Cassidy
Saudi Arabia isn't the enemy, but it is a problem. It could make so much positive difference in the Islamic world if it used its status to soothe Sunni-Shiite tensions and encourage tolerance. For a time, under King Abdullah, it seemed that the country was trying to reform, but now under King Salman, it has stalled.
— Nicholas Kristof
I like to accept it all, the negative and the positive.
— Alek Wek
Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It's not who we are.
— James Altucher
You are always, always overwhelmed by positive response because you know it can go either way.
— Larry Wilmore
There's not a lot of positive role models of women in newspapers and magazines. I think it puts pressure on girls. They think that the image put out, it's the way you have to look.
— Katie Taylor
Atoms consist of a positive nucleus and negative electrons flying around outside it. Electrons closest to the nucleus feel a strong negative-on-positive tug, and the bigger atoms get, the bigger the tug. In really big atoms, electrons whip around at speeds close to the speed of light.
— Sam Kean
I wasn't a vegan when I came to Congress. It was a decision I made soon after I got here, and it's had such a positive impact on my life that I decided to try to help others as well.
— Ted Deutch
Making great strides without a well-defined purpose will not bring positive results.
— John Rampton
I try to be as positive as I can because I truly believe I am my feelings, and if I'm sad, if I have regrets, they will show up as illnesses, they will show up as cancers... I don't want that.
— Marie Helvin
When you've been touched by sadness and grief, it makes you vulnerable. And because I am vulnerable, I try to be positive. And when I say 'try,' I really do mean try, because it's an effort.
— Marie Helvin
If anybody has a bad day, they'll just come to my room because they know I'll bring out the positive in everything, or I'll make them laugh, or I'll be just crazy.
— Simone Biles
Even when people don't stay married, they can still be a family together. That's been something that's been really good for developing me as a person. It's been a very positive learning experience.
— Kimberly Guilfoyle
People are rejecting the power of the elite, but individuals such as Snowden are doing so in a positive way, trying to change things for the better. He is a very intelligent man and obviously interested in electronic music.
— Jean-Michel Jarre
I had no precise plan when I started 'Electronica,' but I think it has been a very positive journey for me.
— Jean-Michel Jarre
I always welcome being part of something positive in WWE.
— Mick Foley
Political folk talk a lot these days about 'messaging' - a neologism designed to describe the way in which parties and politicians consciously characterize their efforts. It is only intended to be positive - i.e., 'Our messaging is designed to show we care.'
— John Podhoretz
It's difficult to change things in a positive way.
— Lizzie Armitstead
Senator Tester is wise enough to make sure his voice is heard in a positive manner to get things done.
— Ryan Zinke
I think for any small business that's bootstrapped, the overwhelming challenge initially is getting to positive cash flow.
— John Mackey
We Americans typically are more positive about our individual futures, which we have some control over, than we are the nation's or the world's, which we see largely through the media prism.
— Elaine Chao
Magic to me is you make a movie and it's all great and it clicks, and at the end of the day you feel like you're having an experience that is positive and that you're learning from.
— Julia Roberts
My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.
— Noel Gallagher
My father... gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.
— Iman
I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
— Washed Out
I believe all positive things and negative things are valuable because they shape you.
— Natalie Massenet
I've been fortunate in my life. It hasn't been easy, but there has been a focus on the positive, and it has reverberated. Eventually, the outlook mirrors itself back to you in the friends you have, in the partner that you choose.
— Leslie Odom, Jr.
I found that being with happy positive people annoys me.
— Karl Pilkington
I think among different members there had been concerns that the RSC had grown so large, and it had many members who really didn't have that conservative voting records, which really is a testimony to what a positive brand conservatism is.
— John Fleming
So much of what I do is inspired by and for the LGBTQ community and for everyone but, just, being a theater kid and wanting to do stuff that represents us in a positive light.
— Tituss Burgess
I'm always going to try to win with a positive mindset.
— Brock Osweiler
Political consultants are pugilists, masters in the dark art of negativity. Which is why it's surprising to hear Democrats such as Steve McMahon and Republicans like Rich Galen urging their presidential candidates to be more, well, positive.
— Ron Fournier
I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.
— Betty White
Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity.
— Grimes
When a person listens to a good song, and they can look out at the world and their lives and see the dark and the light, the negative and the positive, all the different elements, all come together in one holistic poem, that is a very healing and very reductive thing, and that's what my music is about.
— Matisyahu
Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.
— Miley Cyrus
We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of positive human experiences that are not available in that culture. And we're right to want those experiences.
— Sam Harris
I contracted malaria in rural Mozambique. I was a youth ambassador for Australia. For a year after high school, you give positive speeches about Australia and as part of it I traveled to lots of different countries.
— Rebel Wilson
Since God is the foundation of my life, anything that streams from that can only be positive.
— Ving Rhames
I come from the school who thought the Internet could be the great democratising force, that getting rid of the gatekeepers was a positive move.
— Beeban Kidron
The same way that I practiced the violin, the same way that I practiced my dance moves, I decided that I was going to practice being positive and practice loving myself.
— Lindsey Stirling
The most pressing ethical question is to make sure that everything you do from a scientific standpoint is done for the ultimate good and positive issue for the people that you're caring about.
— Anthony Fauci
We have been blessed with a healthy, growing economy, with more Americans going back to work, and with our Nation acting as a positive force for good in the world.
— Jim DeMint
I am pleased to say that I am not a tortured comedian - I laugh a lot. My twenties weren't particularly happy, but it's the same for a lot of people. In your thirties, you realise that your life and your worries are really insignificant, and you have to force yourself to be more positive and take each day as a gift.
— Miranda Hart
If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we're much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example.
— Eric Schmidt
There's a certain darkness to Slipknot, but at the same time, there's a very strong dose of positivity. Stone Sour is the same way. There's a certain melancholy that comes with the slower stuff, but at the end of the day there's also that other side that is very positive. It's all how you deliver.
— Corey Taylor
I'm not the best at expressing my feelings other than in songs or on paper. It's just been such a blessing for me my whole life to get my feelings out there in a positive way.
— Cassadee Pope
I don't want to waste anyone's time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift.
— Mos Def
The thing is, I don't do these things for recognition, being a good teammate, being a positive member of the community. I do them because those things make me whole and complete.
— Dwyane Wade
If I have affected someone in a positive way, that means a lot to me.
— Bill Parcells
'Top Gear' changed people's perceptions of me. I've had much more positive responses from my TV appearances than written articles. And I have the weirdest voice.
— James Blunt
The beautiful thing about the NFL season is to see a team come together after they get to know each other in the spring and summer. You then go through adversity together and see how you respond. The teams that can respond in a positive way are the teams that are going to be there in the end.
— Aaron Rodgers
You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.
— Carlos Ghosn
I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.
— Frank Gehry
I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.
— Isabelle Adjani
Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own.
— Daniel Goleman
If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
— Jack Canfield
My mother has had breast cancer twice. And my mother has always been this very positive human being: a glass-half-full type. Like, when she was in treatment and feeling really bad, she would always talk about some nurse that was particularly nice to her.
— Susanne Bier
I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet.
— Jose Saramago
I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.
— Jose Saramago
About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.
— W. Bruce Cameron
If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
— Manuel Puig
Ya gotta think positive.
— Craig Sager
Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.
— Jose Mourinho
When you're not working is when you have to stay positive and remind yourself that you're talented.
— Rutina Wesley
Generally, I love being part of a project that imparts a positive message, is somehow educational or enlightening, helps to bridge differences, or inspires viewers in some way.
— Nazanin Boniadi
Don't look at someone else and want to be them. Search within yourself and find out who you are and be someone positive.
— Kelly Rowland
What has gone catastrophically wrong in England and the States is that for 30 years we've lost the ability to talk about the state in positive terms. We've raised a generation or two of young people who don't think to ask, 'What can the state do that is good?'
— Tony Judt
Many persons swear by positive thinking, and quite a few have been helped by it. Nevertheless, it is not a very effective tool and can be downright harmful in some cases.
— Srikumar Rao
If you embrace 'positive thinking,' you are - by definition - spurning 'negative thinking.' So it's as if you were on a teeter-totter and are trying desperately to put all your weight on one side - the 'positive thinking' side.
— Srikumar Rao
I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross.
— Fergie
I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
— Ted Nugent
Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways.
— Diane Ackerman
Healthy children are born from healthy, respected, well-nourished and educated mothers and it is imperative that they have a voice in the decisions which affect them. If you empower a mother and let her have her say towards a poverty-free future, the positive impact this would have on ending hunger will be immense.
— Dionne Warwick
When push comes to shove, it ain't the science that's going to lift you up - it's the belief, the spiritual side of life, that's going to lift you up, no matter what religion you are.
— Kirstie Alley
There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That's a beautiful deleveraging.
— Ray Dalio
I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.
— Mike Krzyzewski
The positive aspect of my negative view is essentially that you shouldn't own cash and government bonds, but you should be in assets like real estate or equities or precious metals or in commodities.
— Marc Faber
I came from a happy family with loving parents, so my associations with marriage and children were all happy, positive things that brought me comfort as a child, which I wanted in my life.
— David Furnish
Scientists have demonstrated that dramatic, positive changes can occur in our lives as a direct result of facing an extreme challenge - whether it's coping with a serious illness, daring to quit smoking, or dealing with depression. Researchers call this 'post-traumatic growth.'
— Jane McGonigal
If you tell your own story to your children - that includes your positive moments and your negative moments, and how you overcame them - you give your children the skills and the confidence they need to feel like they can overcome some hardship that they've felt.
— Bruce Feiler
The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come.
— Bruce Feiler
I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way.
— Anthony Horowitz
The best thing to do when you find yourself in a hurting or vulnerable place is to surround yourself with the strongest, finest, most positive people you know.
— Kristin Armstrong
To protect people's lives and keep our children safe, we must implement public-works spending and do so proudly. If possible, I'd like to see the Bank of Japan purchase all of the construction bonds that we need to issue to cover the cost. That would also forcefully circulate money in the market. That would be positive for the economy, too.
— Shinzo Abe
We believe that there are many buyers who want a stylish, sporty car that sends a positive message about their concern for the environment as they drive it down the street.
— Henrik Fisker
We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
— Barbara Jordan
This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump.
— Charles Barkley
You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
— Garrett Hedlund
There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.
— Arabella Weir
And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.
— Delta Burke
Having achieved my own dreams, I want to give to kids who are less fortunate, who struggle with everyday obstacles. I want to give them something positive in their lives: support.
— Kristi Yamaguchi
I believe one of the best things about managing people is that we can influence lives in a positive way. That's basically what a manager is about. When I can do that, I am very happy.
— Arsene Wenger
Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.
— Martin Yan
I've specifically decided to say no to projects that weren't advancing Latinos, that weren't showing us in a positive light, roles that were gratuitous and spreading untruths.
— Gina Rodriguez
Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.
— William Cowper
When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no relationship that we have in the world that is more important than our relationship with Canada.
— Paul Cellucci
I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and be a good man. A lot of the principals they taught me still affect how I act sometimes and it's 30 years later.
— Kevin James
I think everyone goes through chapters in their life and there was a time when I wasn't feeling terribly positive about what I was contributing to film, or wasn't feeling as if I was going in the direction I wanted and I re-evaluated what I was doing.
— Jude Law
How nice it would be to breeze through life and just brush things off. I never read reviews because I hate to lose more than I like to win I experience negative emotions far greater than positive ones. 
— Catherine Tate
When you think positively, you attract positive people. If I'm on a mission to be successful, and I'm positive all the time, then more positive people will come around me, and we'll help each other. If you're negative, you'll find yourself surrounded by negative people.
— Astro
You have to be positive, and I'm not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life.
— Sheryl Swoopes
I've had so much positive reaction and emotional fulfillment from the creation of my art and sharing it with everyday people that I never paid too much attention to the opinion of critics.
— Thomas Kinkade
I'm an un-healable positive optimist.
— Andre Rieu
I want always to be positive.
— Gianni Versace
I think there are a lot of really positive aspects to social media for novelists. Even though our work is pretty solitary, through Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook and Instagram and blogging in general, we're better able to connect directly with readers.
— Holly Black
Our intention is that people use MakerBots to have a positive impact on the world.
— Bre Pettis
I learned one thing - never hate a positive option.
— Kevin Garnett
It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.
— James Bovard
I am blood type O-positive, which I remember by staying 'optimistic positive.'
— Michael Weatherly
I love meeting people, and I know it's so difficult for people to come up to me and introduce themselves, so when they do, I'll grab them and hug them. It makes their day, you know? I love that, and I get positive energy from that.
— Nicola Formichetti
I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.
— Daryl Hannah
I'm not here to discuss the past... I'm here to be positive.
— Mark McGwire
With everything that's thrown at you, whether it be problems at home, problems at work - whatever - basically, if you remain positive, you can see your way out of that.
— Sean Paul
I think positive. I always think we're going to score. Two minutes is a lot of time if you have timeouts and you're throwing every down. You have to make the right decisions. I've always had great receivers, which helps. It's not just me doing it.
— Dan Marino
Hosting the Olympic Games of course guarantees the world's attention, but there is more to it than simply bathing in the global spotlight. Most importantly, host cities can use the opportunity to create a positive and lasting legacy, resulting in both tangible and intangible returns to local communities.
— Eduardo Paes
I always loved designing, but the context needs to be right, and have a positive perspective.
— Hedi Slimane
What manner of thing this 'public opinion' is, should be best known to those who have its name forever in their mouths and erect the regard for it into a positive article of religion. Its self-styled organ in our times is the 'Press.'
— Richard Wagner
Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.
— Terence Stamp
People dwell so much on the little things, but why should they hold you back when you have the big things to look forward to? By exuding positive energy when dealing with your problems, you will exude it in your being in general. Treat yourself with love and you will exude love to others.
— Hayley Hasselhoff
People don't believe in positive changes anymore.
— Alexei Navalny
I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.
— Paul Keating
My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you.
— Mavis Staples
I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations.
— Q-Tip
Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.
— Richard Louv
I'm positive and I smile a lot, and I'm kind of a banana, but serious work just seems to find me, so I'm not going to argue with it.
— Mireille Enos
As the tech industry continues to grow and sprout successful startups across the country, it is important that we understand our responsibility to affect positive change in our communities.
— Ron Conway
Playing a positive role on a network television show, it was great. I took it as a responsibility. Poncherello was supposed to be Poncherelli, and then when I got this part I said, 'You know what, this guy isn't going to be Italian-American, he's gonna be Hispanic American.' And they went with it.
— Erik Estrada
An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction.
— Johannes Stark
Oscar is the exact opposite of how I think you should behave. I just think of it as a negative view of the positive mind I have. Big Bird is sweet and nice and also sympathetic, as kids can identify with him even though he looks like such a bizarre character - great 8 feet 2 inches, a beak 18 inches long.
— Caroll Spinney
I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.
— Kevin Powers
There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.
— William Julius Wilson
My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.
— Vince Flynn
Whatever that day has given, you have to make it the best of the best. That's one thing I've learned over my years. On days when you can't make everything what you want, do what you do best, make it as positive as possible, and go from there. Learn from your mistakes.
— Troy Dumais
Be positive and laugh at everything.
— Alexandra Roach
Positivity, that's one of the things I try to spread throughout my company and really anyone I come in contact with. Because as you know, life's too short. You got to keep it positive and keep it fun.
— Jose Garces
The only way that we're going to feel secure in this country again and that we're going to feel good about ourselves is if we use these systems we've put into place to create positive change around the world. I really believe we can do that.
— John Perkins
I realize myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use.
— Julian Cope
So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.
— John Newcombe
We achieved our mission to the moon. Let's look home from that lofty perch and reimagine our mission on Earth - that is what we need to do here. Together, we can upcycle everything. The world will be better for our positive visions and actions.
— William McDonough
I find the positive in the negative all the time. Any time you give something power, it wins, and it can continuously happen, so I just let negative people know they have no place in my life. They have no place around my children.
— Monica Denise Brown
Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
— Imre Lakatos
In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development.
— Jose Ramos-Horta
I believe in entrepreneurs. I believe in their ability to make positive change in the world.
— Jessica Jackley
I'm all about your mindset, being focused, staying positive, being optimistic, and knowing that these are all aspects of my life that I love and enjoy.
— Kyla Pratt
Music is pretty much the lifestyle, not the music itself. The lifestyle really pulled me off the street. Made me want to do something organized and positive.
— Brandon Thomas
You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.
— Hans Bender
Perhaps the most encouraging trend is that, through technology, people are realizing how much agency they actually have. Technology has revolutionized the way we eat, live, communicate, socialize, learn, and do. We see enormous potential to create lasting, positive change in the way the world works by doing what we are doing.
— Jeremy Heimans
I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.
— Chad Lowe
There are so many little girls who follow me and look up to me. I'm their role model, so I have to make sure I'm always being professional and not putting any swear words out there - just really putting positive things out there on the Internet.
— Jordyn Wieber
The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand.
— Thomas R. Cech
I feel blessed to be a musician, and I know it's a power given to me from God that I must use in a very positive way.
— Vusi Mahlasela
Making the Australian team is the hardest part, and going to the Olympics is the easy part. You're there representing your country - you're representing every single person in it, strangers you don't know - and there's a lot of positive energy, but you have to know to channel it the right way.
— Ken Wallace
In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.
— Jack Harbaugh
I basically have a very positive philosophy of life, because I don't feel I have anything to lose. Most things are going to turn out okay.
— Hal Ashby
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
— Dr. Seuss
Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories.
— Buddy Valastro
You don't get older, you get better.
— Shirley Bassey
Don't just count your years, make your years count.
— George Meredith
Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift.
— Aretha Franklin
Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
— Plautus
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
— Bob Hope
The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.
— Paris Hilton
Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.
— Audrey Hepburn
The only thing better than singing is more singing.
— Ella Fitzgerald
I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.
— Idina Menzel
If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.
— John Oates
Let them eat cake.
— Marie Antoinette
All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.
— George Harrison
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.
— Mitch Hedberg
We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.
— Lauren Hutton
You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'
— Jerry Seinfeld
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
— Lewis Carroll
My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
— Boris Johnson
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
— John Glenn
My life is better with every year of living it.
— Rachel Maddow
I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'
— Steven Wright
Love the giver more than the gift.
— Brigham Young
Motorcycle riding has been a passion of mine since my 20th birthday, and as a proud member of the American Motorcyclist Association and the Harley Owners Group, I can attest that responsible riding has many unique recreational benefits for millions of Americans.
— Tim Walberg
I wanted to be the next Dana Carvey. This was my ultimate goal. If I ever cut into a birthday cake and made a wish, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I threw a coin into a fountain, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I saw a shooting star, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.'
— Jimmy Fallon
I don't pay attention to the number of birthdays. It's weird when I say I'm 53. It just is crazy that I'm 53. I think I'm very immature. I feel like a kid. That's why my back goes out all the time, because I completely forget I can't do certain things anymore - like doing the plank for 10 minutes.
— Ellen DeGeneres
People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
— Nadine Gordimer
I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot.
— Steven Wright
I turned 40 on the set of the reunion show for 'Sheer Genius,' so it wasn't a hideous birthday because I had everyone on the cast and crew sing 'Happy Birthday' to me, and I won $10,000 for being the fan favorite. It was really liberating to turn 40 and realize that I felt very comfortable with myself and knew who I was.
— Tabatha Coffey
My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday. A daughter in an asylum! I had done that to her. Still, she had obviously decided to forgive me.
— Sylvia Plath
If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
— Bruce Barton
If I have the power to post 'Happy Birthday' on someone's Facebook page and make them feel really good, it feels really good to make other people feel really good. I love it. I'm a huge Facebook and Twitter person. And I love talking to my fans. It's fun.
— Rebecca Mader
I have an ambivalent relationship with Margaret Thatcher. She came to power in May 1979 - a month before my 11th birthday. I was far too young to have developed a great deal of political awareness. I remember it, though - my mother excited at the dinner table because Britain had its first female prime minister.
— Sara Sheridan
One of my favorite memories was one time Prince picked me up and said we were going to Michael Jordan's birthday party.
— Tamron Hall
About 50 percent of the songs on the radio are like, 'Live like tomorrow doesn't exist. Like it's my birthday. Like it's the last day of my life'... Such a large percentage of pop music is really about party time.
— Sia
Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.
— Rene Russo
I would watch 'The Ed Sullivan Show' and borrow a few lines here and there from guests like Red Buttons and Buddy Hackett to create a routine. Then I started getting invited to do political functions like the governor's birthday ball or mayor's dinner.
— Norm Crosby
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
— Ellen Glasgow
I decided if you're lucky enough to be alive, you should use each birthday to celebrate what your life is about.
— Mary Steenburgen
My parents screened 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinated by the idea of living in a candy land with chocolate rivers and lollipop trees.
— Dylan Lauren
It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
— Sam Levenson
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
— Thomas Fuller
I love a card. You know, cards? At birthdays? I collect them.
— Adele
I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
— Aimee Bender
It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.
— Annie Dillard
I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president's birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing 'Happy Birthday,' like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, 'Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!'
— Marilyn Monroe
I'm most comfortable in my birthday suit.
— Amanda Seyfried
When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?
— Lisa Loeb
At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can't say no to her. It would just break my heart. But when I was little, for birthdays we just played outside and we were happy if we got any cake.
— Goran Ivanisevic
The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.
— Julianna Margulies
We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top.
— Navjot Singh Sidhu
I had a 'Cats' phase, where I did lots of overturned furniture and trash cans. I asked for a fog machine for my birthday.
— Ben Platt
My every birthday wish was, 'I want to someday be on TV.'
— Awkwafina
I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement.
— Pete Rose
I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.
— Sarah Sutton
The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.
— James Rollins
I love having my birthday at Australia Zoo.
— Bindi Irwin