Charlize Theron Quotes

Right now the institution of marriage feels very one-sided, and I want to live in a country where we all have equal rights. I have so many friends who are gays and lesbians who would so badly want to get married, that I wouldn't be able to sleep with myself if I got married before they could.

Charlize Theron

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• I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Perfect

• Bulking up for the Twilight films was one of the hardest things I've done... I had to give myself a lot of pep talks, as there was just so much gym time.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Service

• 'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'

  

  Adam McKay
  • Time
  • Government
  • Military

• By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Excellence
  • Contemplation

• What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Music
  • Song
  • Single

• People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • God
  • Happy
  • Growth

• You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • You
  • New
  • Wave

• Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Country
  • Need

• The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.'

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • See
  • Everything
  • Got

• If people think I look good, it's the make-up.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Think
  • More
  • Now

• I have this threadbare caftan from the '60s that I got at a vintage store years ago - it's basically a muumuu. My friends are astonished that I wear it, but I love it. It's this light fabric that just moves with me.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • Friends
  • Light
  • Store

• If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Life
  • Important
  • Secrets

• I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Music
  • Marriage
  • Picture

• I feel there’s an existential angst among young people. I didn’t have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.

  

  Sergey Brin
  • People
  • Mountain
  • Hills

• The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Wife
  • Marriage
  • Friendship

• As Democratic losses mounted in Senate races across the country on election night, some liberal commentators clung to the idea that dissatisfied voters were sending a generally anti-incumbent message, and not specifically repudiating Democratic officeholders. But the facts of the election just don't support that story.

  

  Byron York
  • Country
  • Night
  • Loss

• Being innovative these days is sometimes having the lack of ego or guts to imitate something. Heck, in the newspaper industry, plagiarism is grounds for firing. In the NFL, you get a raise for doing that.

  

  Randy Cross
  • Ego
  • Newspaper
  • NFL

• Some say the economy means that you have to persuade people to invest in clothes - to buy less things but more expensive things. I disagree - invest in jewelry, or a house, maybe, but not in fashion.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • People
  • House
  • Fashion

• Right now the institution of marriage feels very one-sided, and I want to live in a country where we all have equal rights. I have so many friends who are gays and lesbians who would so badly want to get married, that I wouldn't be able to sleep with myself if I got married before they could.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Country
  • Friends
  • Marriage