Charles Handy Quotes
We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.
Quotes to Explore
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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Imagination rules the world.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, 'Don't worry, everybody, just get into it. I'm just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.'
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We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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Because I feel 'Thor' is the beginning of finding my roots, and I found that I have family in America, I want to take my time and put effort on my future work so that foreign people get to know me better, and I also want to enjoy that process itself!
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
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I've never been a cheerleader. It's so outside of my range of things I could ever do.
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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
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The disconnect between what people think and what the political leaders are actually doing is something that we really need to start raising.
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By professing no ideal in morality, these nice people can never be accused of not living up to their creed. This is the great advantage that they have over the Christians - whose creed is so lofty that they can often and truly be accused of failing to meet its demands.
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We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.
