Ellen Barkin Quotes

I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I really think about it.

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• When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Soul
  • Religion
  • Beauty

• Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.

  

  Jack Herer
  • World
  • Religious
  • Creative

• I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Work
  • American

• All the terrorists are basically migrants.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Terrorists
  • Basically

• Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Good
  • Better
  • Competition

• My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Kids
  • Influence

• Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Opinion
  • Politics

• I know that in my family there are histories of violence that are internal family things and that are oftentimes dealt with internally. By internally, I mean inside the family group, but also partly inside ourselves. You know, self-hatred and hostility and rage and this cycle that won't break.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Family
  • Know
  • Violence

• My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

  

  Candace Parker
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Genius
  • Himself

• Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Great
  • Country
  • American

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Character
  • You
  • Weird

• The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • War
  • Death
  • Man

• Growing up, I always wanted to sing.

  

  Damian McGinty
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Always

• You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Poetry
  • Easy
  • Nothing

• Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Up
  • Know
  • Opinions

• When you eliminate all stimuli, your brain is like, 'Finally, we've got some space! I want to talk with you about something!'

  

  Brie Larson
  • Space
  • Brain

• I lost my virginity junior year of college, I was 21... I was awkward, and I was raised Jehovah's Witness so I thought sex was bad, I thought I was going to go to hell, and get AIDS immediately.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Bad
  • Lost
  • College

• Whenever you're starting a new show, you have these awkward first lunches and meetings that are sort of mandatory, and everybody shows up, but nobody knows each other.

  

  Lizzy Caplan
  • Up

• It's when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Afraid
  • Reach
  • Potential

• I would sooner read five lines of the Bible than hear five masses in the "Church".

  

  Anne Askew
  • Church
  • Bible
  • Read

• I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I really think about it.

  

  Ellen Barkin
  • Mistake