Very Quotes

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

I was an OK boxer, I wasn't great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.

Egypt is a large, complex, very important country.

I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.

Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.

I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.

You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.

In my career, I'm very grateful for the opportunities.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.

Fighting disparities is very significant.

You may make some mistakes-but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

It's a very good historical book about history.

I was very quiet, very shy and docile.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

I think as a young actress, it's very rare that you read something where you're not either 'the girl' or there to serve some romantic purpose in a male dominated cast.

Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Very ugly things were said about me.

Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

I feel very blessed. I have had, and am having, such a lovely life.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.