Desmond Tutu Quotes
We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
Quotes to Explore
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I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.
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I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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On almost every environmental issue I care about, in fact, I've been wrong at one point or another. I used to think that climate change was no big deal, that most environmental problems were massive exaggerations, that oil reserves were effectively unlimited, and more.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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I need my fill of Indian home cooking.
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I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity.
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Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
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All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.
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I think every business is definitely different. There are certain businesses where execution is everything.
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We didn't create all this wealth; we capitalized on an environment that permitted us to create it.
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I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington.
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When I played Robert Howard in 'The Whole Wide World', I was struggling with it. There's this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there's constant shame: 'Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?'
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In Germany, of course, the Holocaust will always be in our history and a big stain on our lives.
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I've always felt that in a comedy script the stage directions should also have a comedic value.
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We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
