Dennis Hastert Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
-
I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
-
The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
-
River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
-
I was noticed by a person from a local model agency, and he proposed that I participate in a beauty contest Miss Chelyabinsk.
-
It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'
-
In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
-
I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
-
I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.
-
With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
-
Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
-
Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
-
One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
-
I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
-
I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
-
I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
-
I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
-
Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
-
I like how I feel when I am in shape. I don't go to a gym; I run.
-
The idea that American producers and directors are choosing black British talent to save themselves a buck or two is ridiculous - it's because we're damn good.
-
I was signed at 18 and had to grow up quickly.
-
When I go to the interviews and sit before a prospective employer, I'm going to try and look as employable as I can.
-
In listening to the narratives of the Congolese, I came to terms with the extent to which their bodies had become battlefields.
-
We'll hopefully get this thing wound up in a reasonable time.
