Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
Quotes to Explore
-
I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
-
I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
-
So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
-
I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.
-
I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
-
The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.
-
I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.
-
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
-
I have fabulous children.
-
In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
-
I never said I was a genius.
-
All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.
-
As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
-
Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated. I'm also a very loving person.
-
I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
-
I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
-
I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
-
Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.
-
I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.
-
I got nominated for a Tony in my Broadway debut, which was fascinating and thrilling and sort of unbelievable all at the same time.
-
If you have a strong belief in yourself, in what you are doing and what you want to do, no adversity is too difficult to overcome.
-
You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
-
After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.
-
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
