Tag: age

“From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.”

“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.”

“We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.”

“Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.”

“It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.”

“Chinese brands will face many obstacles when marketing to Western consumers. Beyond the associations with poor quality and unsound environmental practices, they generally do not have the marketing capabilities or budgets to build powerful global brands.”

“I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon.”

“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.”

“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.”

“And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.”

“I would love to be an amazing singer. I take voice lessons. It's good to have as a dancer - to be able to sing and act, too, because for a Broadway show or musical, you have to be able to do everything.”

“Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”

“Our career is a dream. I mean, we get to act, travel around the world, and meet cool people. What's not to love!”

“I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.”

“When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation.”

“For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.”

“The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.”

“Conflict, of course, comes about because of the misuse of power and the clash of ideals, not to mention the inflammatory activities of unscrupulous and bigoted leaders. But it also arises, tragically, from an inability to understand and from the powerful emotions which, out of misunderstanding, lead to distrust and fear.”

“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”

“Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.”

“You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.”