Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape, its capacity.

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• When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Forgotten

• I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

  

  Dana Fox
  • Amazing
  • Thought
  • Awesome

• If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Wind

• I don't really believe in the auteur theory.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Believe
  • Really
  • Theory

• I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Experience
  • Age
  • Think

• I've spent my life visiting a handful of people who are very close to me when they've been committed to one hospital or another in New York.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• Some of the areas in China have been under very grave water scarcity: for example, the north China plain; they are facing a very serious water shortage. Per capita levels have dropped to very serious levels, including in Beijing.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Water
  • Serious
  • China

• And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Musicians

• The fact is, it's hard to release movies.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Movies
  • Hard
  • Fact

• Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Proud
  • Only
  • Did

• I hate negative ads in general.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Hate
  • Negative
  • General

• California is an easy place to be an Asian woman engineer.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Woman
  • Easy
  • California

• Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Men
  • Power
  • Change

• We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Believe
  • Wish

• I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.

  

  Kat Graham
  • World
  • Different
  • Own

• When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Want
  • Know
  • Old

• A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Judge
  • Rules
  • Evidence

• The whole of this studio is bonded; that is to say, we are not officially in Japan per se, but rather, in what is considered for these purposes an adjunct of the customs shed at Narita airport. Officially, we are not here because we are pornographic. It's a rather curious situation.

  

  Peter Greenaway

• This is the best thing that could've happened for the 2011 season - Bolt losing like this and having to go away.

  

  Ato Boldon

• Oprah has been a true inspiration to me, so I'm truly grateful both to her for taking the time to speak with me, and to the folks at 'DWTS' who set it all up.

  

  Amy Purdy
  • Time
  • Inspiration
  • Oprah

• I would love to play 'Wonder Woman'; I have the abilities and the strength because I am definitely not the typical Hollywood actress.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Love
  • Play
  • Woman

• Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape, its capacity.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
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