Famous Quotes By Audre Lorde

 

1. Art is not living. It is the use of living.
2. Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.
3. Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
4. But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
5. But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.
6. I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
7. I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?
8. I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
9. I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.
10. I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.
11. In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.
12. In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
13. It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
14. Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
15. Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
16. The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.
17. The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
18. The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.
19. There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.
20. We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
21. When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
22. When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.
23. When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.

Famous Quotes By Robert H. Schuller

 

1. A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.
2. Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
3. Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
4. God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.
5. God's delays are not God's denials.
6. High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.
7. I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
8. If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
9. If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
10. It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
11. It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
12. Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
13. Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
14. My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church materials that were created on our own personal time.
15. Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
16. Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.
17. Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
18. Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
19. The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.
20. The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
21. What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
22. You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Famous Quotes By Stephen Covey

 

1. A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
2. But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!
3. Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.
4. Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
5. Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.
6. Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
7. Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.
8. In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
9. It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.
10. Live out of your imagination, not your history.
11. Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
12. There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
13. Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
14. We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
15. We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Famous Quotes By Shirley MacLaine

 

1. Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
2. I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a real problem.
3. I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.
4. I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.
5. I never would have given up my work to stay home.
6. I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.
7. I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.
8. I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him.
9. If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.
10. It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.
11. It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
12. I've gotten crankier in my old age.
13. I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.
14. Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.
15. Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
16. The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
17. The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime.
18. Things are done according to money these days.
19. We need proof in our society.
20. Well, success does not mean doing well.
21. Women being pitted each other another in Hollywood is an old tactic, but it's not real at all.
22. Women love working together. That's my experience anyway.

Famous Quotes By Shania Twain

 

1. Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.
2. For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success.
3. Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.
4. I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.
5. I do not see my family life in any way, shape, or form as an opportunity for a photo.
6. I enjoy sports in person.
7. I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength.
8. I like being at home and cooking.
9. I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.
10. I love music.
11. I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life.
12. I really hope my peers appreciate and respect what I'm doing.
13. I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.
14. I temporarily lost my hope in love, and it was temporary, thank goodness.
15. I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.
16. I'll always be sad that my marriage ended.
17. In a way, we women take on more than we need to sometimes.
18. It was just like a dream. I could have ended up with an album that's not all that different from anything else coming out of Nashville. Mutt made the difference. He took these songs, my attitude, my creativity, and colored them in a way that is unique.
19. Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this.
20. Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.
21. Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.
22. My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.
23. The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.
24. Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music.
25. Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

Famous Quotes By Samuel Richardson

 

1. A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
2. As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
3. Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
4. From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
5. Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
6. If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
7. Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
8. Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
9. Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
10. Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
11. Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
12. Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
13. O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
14. Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
15. Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.
16. The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.
17. The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
18. The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
19. There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.
20. Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
21. Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
22. Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.
23. Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
24. Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
25. Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

Famous Quotes By Ginnifer Goodwin

 

1. But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.
2. Couldn't start the morning without caffeine.
3. I am much more open to plural marriage than I was before, and I now support it in certain situations. I do believe it is right for some people. But our example in America today is gross abuse - I can't support it in fundamentalist compounds.
4. I don't know why anyone would want to ask an actor for dating advice. We are not the poster children for healthy relationships.
5. I love Valentine's Day! I love it, I love it, I love it. I like having doors opened for me. My favorite romantic comedy is 'When Harry Met Sally.'
6. I really am super lazy and doing long hair, especially mine, is a big pain in the butt. It's filled with cowlicks and kinks and curls and frizz - and it was taking too much time in the morning.
7. I'm so an all-or-nothing person in dating, always. I'm big on not wasting time. And so, yeah, if something's not working, it's time to not hold people back.
8. It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.
9. I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film... I can't sit still.
10. I've never had body issues, I've never had an eating disorder. I've never had to go on a diet and that's because of Weight Watchers.
11. Oh my gosh, I feel like I'm really obsessive about anything dealing with my health.
12. When I'm doing a film, I love getting together after work with my costars. But we get back to L.A. and I'm like, 'I don't want to go to a club with you, dude. I mean, I think you're rad, and if you want to come play Scrabble with me, that's amazing'.
13. Why do only boys get to chase? Nuh-uh! If anything, I think this whole sitting back and waiting thing can be self-sabotaging. We have to send up flares. We have to let guys know we're open for business.
14. You know, one of my biggest dreams in life is to play a Disney princess.

Famous Quotes By Jack Kevorkian

 

1. A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.
2. Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
3. As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.
4. Fear controls you.
5. Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
6. I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.
7. I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
8. I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.
9. I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
10. If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.
11. I'm not a romantic.
12. I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
13. Let's hope you feel better now.
14. My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
15. My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.
16. Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.
17. The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.
18. The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.
19. The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
20. There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.
21. This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
22. What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.
23. You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.
24. You've gotta know what death is to know life!

Famous Quotes By Rand Paul

 

1. A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.
2. American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.
3. Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?
4. Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?
5. For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'
6. Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.
7. I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
8. I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.
9. I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
10. I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.
11. I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.
12. I think my dad has helped me tremendously.
13. I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.
14. If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
15. In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
16. I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.
17. The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.
18. The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.
19. The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.
20. We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
21. We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.
22. You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.
23. You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
24. You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.

Famous Quotes By Herbert Hoover

 

1. About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
2. All men are equal before fish.
3. Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
4. Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
5. Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
6. Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
7. If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.
8. I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
9. It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
10. It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.
11. It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.
12. Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
13. New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.
14. No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
15. Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
16. Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.
17. Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
18. The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
19. The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.
20. There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
21. When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
22. When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
23. Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
24. Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Famous Quotes By Laura Linney

 

1. Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.
2. Doing the right thing has power.
3. Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.
4. History's a resource.
5. I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.
6. I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.
7. I get cold - really cold - when I travel.
8. I had a good imagination and I still have one a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.
9. I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.
10. I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
11. I love 70's music.
12. I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
13. I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.
14. I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word.
15. I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.
16. It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
17. It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.
18. I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
19. Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.
20. My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
21. My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.
22. People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.
23. The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
24. The thing about death is that it's honest.
25. Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.
26. What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.
27. You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.

Famous Quotes By Julia Roberts

 

1. Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.
2. Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.
3. I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who you are or where you live there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.
4. I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.
5. I couldn't be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you're ridiculed.
6. I did get to keep the wedding dresses from 'Runaway Bride'. They're all boxed up in my garage. I've never opened them. It'll be fun one day when Hazel is taller. She can play dress-up with her friends.
7. I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.
8. I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before.
9. I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies.
10. If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.
11. It's funny when people say, 'I don't think Julia likes me.' Honey, if I don't like you, you're going to know about it.
12. It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.
13. Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.
14. My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.'
15. 'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.
16. Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.
17. They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys.
18. True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you.
19. You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.
20. You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

Famous Quotes By Lech Walesa

 

1. As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.
2. Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.
3. Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.
4. He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.
5. I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.
6. I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.
7. I hope to work harder than ever to help people around the world.
8. I want to light the lights of patriotism.
9. Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.
10. My health is very much improved.
11. My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.
12. Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.
13. Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.
14. The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.
15. The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.
16. The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
17. The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
18. We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
19. You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?

Famous Quotes By David Bowie

 

1. And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.
2. But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.
3. I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.
4. I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.
5. I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.
6. I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.
7. I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.
8. I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange I never thought I would be.
9. I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.
10. I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.
11. It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.
12. On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.
13. The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
14. There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.
15. To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

Famous Quotes By Francois Hollande

 

1. An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.
2. Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equality.
3. France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view.
4. I am for a clear distinction between public and private life. I believe private matters should be regulated in private and I have asked those close to me to respect this.
5. I am proud to have been capable of giving people hope again.
6. I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU.
7. I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.
8. I know where I'm going and I have told the French. I am sure if hope is there, we will be able to put France back on its feet... to live better in five years than we do today.
9. I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.
10. I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism.
11. I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.
12. In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.
13. My adversary is the world of finance.
14. My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.
15. That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.
16. The transatlantic relationship is vital for both our countries: France will remain a reliable ally of the United States. Nevertheless, ally does not mean aligned.
17. The United Nations will be at the heart of our international activities. France will assume its full responsibilities at the Security Council by putting its status at the service of peace, respect for human rights and development.
18. We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.
19. We are near, very near, to an end to the eurozone crisis... The worst - in the sense of the fear of the eurozone breaking up - is over. But the best isn't there yet.