Mark Ruffalo Quotes

When you get to be a 45-year-old man, you start to realize: 'I know who I am, and I know who I'm not. I know my shortcomings, I know my strengths; maybe some of my shortcomings are my strengths.' You start to face yourself as you truly are.

Mark Ruffalo

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• I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Play
  • Young
  • Expectations

• Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Up
  • Way
  • Working

• I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.

  

  Candice Olson
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Compromise

• Maybe the Burberry woman is undefinable! I think it's less about what she looks like and more about an attitude.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • She
  • Think
  • Woman

• Few states, they have the international borders, state borders; in India, there is so much diversity in system. Unity in diversity is our system, so therefore, you cannot take for granted, whatever you do.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • You
  • Diversity
  • Unity

• I'm a driven person, but I'm also cautious, and I overthink things sometimes.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Sometimes
  • Person
  • Driven

• We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Giving
  • Give
  • Harvest

• I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Think
  • Sound
  • Fans

• Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Life
  • Music
  • Science

• The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
  • Reality
  • Aging

• I think 'Heroine' was Kareena Kapoor's best ever role of her career.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Think
  • Career
  • Best

• I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Work
  • Ideas
  • Fast

• Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

  

  Alexander Alekhine
  • Art
  • Game
  • Chess

• Sexually it was crazy. That’s all I’ll say. It was like napalm, sexual napalm.

  

  John Mayer
  • Crazy

• The language of communication will always need to be renewed.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Communication

• I joined the 800th MP Brigade when they were already deployed.

  

  Janis Karpinski

• Respecting the Second Amendment does not mean abandoning common sense. The right to own guns in this country must remain, while we also must strengthen our laws to prevent mass shootings.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Country

• It's not good to put in a magazine what I weigh because it's too little. People freak out when they hear what I weigh. They think, 'Oh, you're too skinny.'

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • People
  • Good

• Working on 'Parks' was like heaven because everyone there was just intimidatingly intelligent and funny, and we would have these hilarious debates about really tangential things. It was inspiring because I felt really challenged to be my best.

  

  Chelsea Peretti
  • Funny
  • Heaven
  • Intelligent

• It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk to squirrels and blue jays all day.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Writing
  • True
  • Blue

• One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in reality they are far more likely to feel isolated, fearful, and ashamed, overwhelmed by grief and guilt, angry at the criminal-justice system, and shunned by their old friends.

  

  Eric Schlosser
  • Friends
  • Reality
  • Support

• Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Relationship
  • Obligation

• The best things in life should never be rushed.

  

  Katrina Mayer
  • Life
  • Best
  • Things

• When you get to be a 45-year-old man, you start to realize: 'I know who I am, and I know who I'm not. I know my shortcomings, I know my strengths; maybe some of my shortcomings are my strengths.' You start to face yourself as you truly are.

  

  Mark Ruffalo