David Halberstam Quotes
Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.
David Halberstam
Quotes to Explore
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Sure, we think it would be great to live forever, but it really wouldn't.
Tananarive Due
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There's competition at every phase of your life. The day we start thinking about it, you lose your peace of mind. I don't compete with anyone.
Rakul Preet Singh
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
Barry Ritholtz
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
Eamon de Valera
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
Victoria de los Angeles
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
Damian Lewis
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He might take habit, whether from wave or phrase,Or power of the wave, or deepened speech, Or a leaner being, moving in on him, Of greater aptitude and apprehension,As if the waves at last were never broken, As if the language suddenly, with ease, Said things it had laboriously spoken.
Wallace Stevens
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Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have.
Mahatma Gandhi
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John is a cottage industry in Baltimore and the city opens its doors for him whenever he is making a new film.
Nancy Paine Stoll
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No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes.
Napoleon Hill
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The wise say that it is not an iron, wooden or fiber fetter which is a strong one, but the besotted hankering after trinkets, children and wives, that, say the wise, is the strong fetter. It drags one down, and loose as it feels, it is hard to break. Breaking this fetter, people renounce the world, free from longing and abandoning sensuality.
Gautama Buddha
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Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.
David Halberstam
