Ellen Stofan Quotes
I live an hour from NASA's HQ in Washington, D.C., and sitting in a jam stresses me out.
Quotes to Explore
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Humanity will live as long as there are humans.
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We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
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It's one thing to live my own life and know that I'm O.K. But there's another thing I want to take on, and that is letting people know that they're O.K., too.
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I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.
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If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.
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Out of the 72 kids that I went to high school with, I still talk to 25 of them on a fairly regular basis. Seven of my classmates live in L.A., and five of them are in the entertainment business, and we constantly talk and play fantasy football together.
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The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.
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We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them.
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However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.
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Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.
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I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.
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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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I'm not part of the friends-and-family club; I'm not part of the pay-to-play club; I'm not looking to get re-elected. I'm not looking to go to another office and fill my campaign coffers. I don't need any friends in Albany except the people of the state.
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That's how you live. You participate. You take risks.
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I primarily live in New York City, a place that is about constants, not letting up and not stopping.
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There's nothing worse than people who want to make you feel better when you are losing. I just want to smack them.
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have you.
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Religion and ethics were not always-or even frequently-mutually compatible. The demands of religious absolutism or fundamentalism or rampaging relativism often reflected the worst aspects of contemporary culture or prejudices rather than a system which both man and God could live under with a sense of real justice.
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You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live.
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What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.
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Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.
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There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason.
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I live an hour from NASA's HQ in Washington, D.C., and sitting in a jam stresses me out.
