Christopher Lambert Quotes

Now I don't want to feel cornered as an actor, because I've got a wider range than that.

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• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Life
  • Movie
  • My Life

• The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Family
  • Love
  • For Her

• On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.

  

  Iman
  • Home
  • Friends
  • Night

• Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Great
  • Children
  • Bear

• For the first time, open source, peer-to-peer protocol developers can monetize their project on a protocol level.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • Time
  • First
  • Open

• The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Place
  • Succeed
  • Meeting

• I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Up
  • Different
  • Real

• With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Lost
  • Revolution
  • Name

• The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the greatest good of all, but no human group has ever reached this ideal because of ignorance and selfishness.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Good
  • Men
  • Effort

• I'm just someone who observes a lot.

  

  Nadine Labaki
  • Just
  • Someone
  • Who

• I sit with people who are dying. I'm one of those unusual types that enjoys being with someone when they're dying because I know I am going to be in the presence of Truth.

  

  Ram Dass
  • People
  • Truth
  • Dying

• Negroes could be sold - actually sold as we sell cattle, with no reference to calves or bulls or recognition of family. It was a nasty business. The white South was properly ashamed of it and continually belittled and almost denied it. But it was a stark and bitter fact.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Family
  • Business
  • Bitter

• The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.

  

  Wendell Berry

• In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Job
  • Exercise

• 42: You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

  

  Alan Perlis
  • Attitude
  • Perspective

• If it ain't a mess, it'll do till the mess gets here.

  

  Cormac McCarthy

• Now civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them which they fail to meet.

  

  Arnold J. Toynbee
  • Believe
  • Challenge

• Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

  

  Margaret Deland
  • Up

• The mechanical mind has a passion for control - of everything except itself. Beyond the control it has won over the forces of nature it would now win control over the forces of society of stating the problem and producing the solution, with social machinery to correspond.

  

  Lawrence Pearsall Jacks
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Society

• Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Great
  • Art
  • American

• Somebody was trying to tell me that CDs are better than vinyl because they don't have any surface noise. I said, 'Listen, mate, *life* has surface noise.

  

  John Peel
  • Life
  • Noise
  • Vinyl

• In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe, but there is no concept of a criminal state, or a criminal government, or criminal legislation. Consequently what is often regarded as "political" activity is in fact a criminal activity.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Men
  • Society
  • Political

• Now I don't want to feel cornered as an actor, because I've got a wider range than that.

  

  Christopher Lambert