David Ignatius Quotes
Sometimes good countries are so traumatized by events that they lose their bearings and embrace bad leaders.
Quotes to Explore
-
Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
-
My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.
-
What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.
-
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.
-
I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
-
The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
-
My family are huge 'Star Wars' fans.
-
My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.
-
My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
-
The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
-
A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
-
A good leader must be fair.
-
My whole life is a theater piece.
-
I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.
-
On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
-
I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day.
-
Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
-
When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
-
China, with her five thousand years of history, her vast territory and her enormous population stands like a mountain peak among the nations of the world. Her contribution to the civilization of mankind is imperishable. She has been a keen lover of peace; she has had a deep respect for international justice.
-
Over-the-knee socks remind me of the 1920s, silent films, and the stars of the era who wore the rolled-down stockings. They sort of referenced that in 'Cabaret,' when Liza Minnelli was singing 'Mein Herr,' and I love the way she looks in that scene.
-
I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
-
When women cut themselves off from men, they sink backward into psychological and spiritual stagnancy.
-
We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish.
-
Sometimes good countries are so traumatized by events that they lose their bearings and embrace bad leaders.
