Chirlane McCray Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The connection I make with being young and growing up is, like, the feeling of not being crushed by the world. Having an idea, thinking you can do it.
-
But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.
-
People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
-
Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.
-
I see it as a responsibility of mine to teach others.
-
We collectively have a special place in our heart for the manned space flight program - Apollo nostalgia is one element, but that is only part of it. American culture worships explorers - look at the fame of Lewis and Clark, for example. The American people want to think of themselves as supporting exploration.
-
It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
-
I travel with a lot of clothes, which is a really bad idea because it's such a nightmare to travel. I always overpack because I like to bring things with me, and I accumulate stuff, so it piles up. I travel with everything I own.
-
I don't have a television, and I'm just not too up on television.
-
I am legitimately Scottish. I can officially say - yes. Yeah, I am from Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland.
-
With the divine Knowledge of Advaita (non-duality) in you, do whatever you wish; for then no evil can ever come out of you.
-
Among many morals which press upon us from the poor minister's miserable experience, we put only this into a sentence: - 'Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!'
-
Human beings are emotional amoral egoists, driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable.
-
Nur wer einig ist mit der Welt kann einig seyn mit sich selbst.
-
Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight -Other days the line tends to deviate.
-
The Vampire Lestat here. I have a story to tell you. It's about something that happened to me.
-
I would warn against anyone marrying a person with more than a ten-year age difference. It almost never works. It is difficult to find things to talk about, to use similar reference points, and to operate at the same speed of life. Another problem is that both sides usually don't want the same things at the same time.
-
I just want to bring as much natural as I can. I'm not saying that people who take acting lessons are false. They're much better than I am, but it doesn't work for me.
-
Liberation is no longer, and can be no longer, merely a national concern. The dimension of the struggle, as Lenin and the Bolsheviks so clearly saw, is international: its road is the socialist revolution.
-
Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.
-
The groupies are far more real now than there were then.
-
Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.
-
I think there's something about being absolutely at the height of intensity at almost every moment of one's job that makes it a lot easier if you don't have time to think much, just sort of barrel through the next crisis.
-
When you become first lady, it's like, 'O.K., now what do you do?'
