Martin Heinrich Quotes

If you look back at President Bush, nobody agreed with his policies, but you understood that he was doing things that he believed was right.

Martin Heinrich

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• Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended 'Highway' to be the first film that I ever made. Didn't happen.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • You
  • Story
  • Lose

• Actors are a race.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Race

• A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Relationship
  • Conversation

• There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Life
  • Know
  • Water

• You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Real
  • She

• There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Woman
  • Poetry
  • Destiny

• I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Single

• Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Real
  • Politics
  • Clever

• If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, 'good fences make good neighbors.'

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Good
  • Church
  • Fences

• That’s the way it was then, you see. Folks noticed other people's trouble every bit as quick as if it was their own.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People

• Whereas it might be erroneous to claim that the literature, art, and music of the Harlem Renaissance revolutionized the practice of democracy in the United States, it would not be an error to point out that the ideas they championed did impact America's understanding, and subsequently its application, of democracy.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Music
  • Art
  • America

• In his litany of famous immigrants who have contributed mightily to America, JFK does not mention a single woman, African or Asian. All are males and all were from Europe, except one West Indian: Alexander Hamilton. And JFK assures the nation, 'Immigrants would still be given tests for health, intelligence, morality and security...'

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • America
  • Single
  • Health

• You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Service

• Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

  

  Aesop
  • Trust
  • Advice

• Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Small
  • Eyes
  • Feel

• As the Earth continues to slow, leap seconds will grow more common. Eventually we will need one every year, and then even more. Scientists could have avoided these awkward skips by choosing instead to adjust the duration of the second itself. Who would notice? That is what they did, in fact, until 1955.

  

  James Gleick
  • Earth

• Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

  

  Arthur Keith
  • Nature

• Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Kids

• Funny... I still can't believe in God." "Does that matter now?"..."He believes in you.

  

  A.J. Cronin
  • God
  • Believe
  • Funny

• We have become dangerously comfortable- believers ooze with wealth and let their addictions to comfort and security numb the radical urgency of the gospel.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Security
  • Wealth
  • Comfort

• I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto. One of my closest friends is a composer, Paul Moravec, and a few years ago, Paul and I were at lunch, and I said to him, "you really have to write an opera." So, he says very casually to me, "I'll do it if you write the libretto." Well, little did I know that the within a couple of years we would end up getting a commission from the Santa Fe Opera to write an opera together, "The Letter," which turned out to be the most successful commissioned opera in the history of the Santa Fe Opera.

  

  Terry Teachout
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Couple

• If you look back at President Bush, nobody agreed with his policies, but you understood that he was doing things that he believed was right.

  

  Martin Heinrich