Frederick Douglass Quotes
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
Quotes to Explore
-
The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
-
In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
-
I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
-
France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
-
I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
-
I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
-
There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.
-
I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
-
Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
-
I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
-
Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
-
I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
-
I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
-
Employees that feel known and they feel like they know why their job matters and they have a sense of measuring it stay later, do extra work, and are committed to the organization above the requirements that they have.
-
If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
-
I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
-
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
-
I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
-
When I am consumed by my problems-stressed out about my life, my family, and my job-I actually convey the belief that I think the circumstances are more important than God's command to always rejoice.
-
I have never suffered under any delusion that saving the whales in the Antarctic sanctuary would be easy, but the one thing I am certain of is that I and my passionate crew of international volunteers will never quit defending life in the seas from poachers, no matter what consequences we must endure to do so.
-
Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
-
There is a lot of negativity that you welcome into your life when you're an actor. You bare your soul for anyone to see.
-
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
