Charlize Theron Quotes

Our mechanics are engineered so that we can survive quite a lot, but I think our need to be loved is so great that it’s the thing that damages us the most.

Charlize Theron

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• I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Music
  • Broken
  • Down

• It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Done
  • Perfect
  • Proud

• When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • School
  • Teacher
  • Drama

• The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Issue

• Twitter means all my friends are in my computer. All my ideas are in my computer. I can do whatever I want in there; I'm kind of... bionic.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Friends
  • Want
  • Ideas

• The NFL, like life, is full of idiots.

  

  Randy Cross
  • Life
  • Like
  • Idiots

• I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

  

  Vanessa Brown
  • Important
  • Think
  • Brain

• I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• Every choice you make has an end result.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • End
  • Choice

• You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • You
  • Energy
  • Yourself

• Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Genius
  • Intelligence

• New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Work
  • Myself
  • New York

• I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Time
  • Women
  • Nature

• Everybody tries to score a great goal, and I am lucky I have netted a few.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Goal
  • Score

• People expect to see white guys, Sunday afternoon, on 'Face the Nation.' And people with a direct interest in politics do watch those shows. But not a lot of normal people watch those shows. But, 'Real Time With Bill Maher,' it's unbelievable how many people watch that.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Marxism
  • Opium

• Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Time
  • Tears
  • Faces

• I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.

  

  B. B. King
  • Start
  • Street
  • Hometown

• If the 'Athens Spring' - when the Greek people courageously rejected the catastrophic austerity conditions of the previous bailouts - has one lesson to teach, it is that Greece will recover only when the European Union makes the transition from 'We the states' to 'We the European people.'

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • People
  • Spring
  • Greek

• I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Acting
  • Movies
  • Loved

• What really dissatisfies in American civilisation is the want of the interesting, a want due chiefly to the want of those two great elements of the interesting, which are elevation and beauty.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Great
  • American
  • Interesting

• I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be a crank to keep going, but on the other hand, what else would you do with the rest of your life? You gotta do something.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • Life
  • Hand
  • Rest

• Our mechanics are engineered so that we can survive quite a lot, but I think our need to be loved is so great that it’s the thing that damages us the most.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Great
  • Loved
  • Survive