Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.
Quotes to Explore
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.
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Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
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Is it really true that religion makes people more kindly, generous, or loving? History tends to disprove this. The worst wars, the most vicious Inquisitions, the cruelest pogroms and persecutions, were both fomented and supported by religion.
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Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.
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The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.
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I have years of saying ideas that are not listened to. Then, weeks after, of producers finding out that I was right when some other guy comes in and says it. Sometimes I just tell my idea to my editor or to some other guy with maybe gray hair to share it, and then it's brilliant!
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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The great lesson here for all imaginatively gridlocked systems is that the acceptance and even cherishing of uncertainty is critical to keeping the human mind from voyaging into the delusion of omniscience.
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If I've tried to bring anything to federal politics, it's the idea that hope and optimism should be at their heart; we can look after each other better than we do today.
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For so many years, I've been an actor acting in other people's movies, and in 'Unstoppable,' I'm producing it, and I have an opportunity to create some of that excitement with style and form and different color templates and things like that. So, as an artist, it's really exciting.
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In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.
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I am not a big fan of what I call 'ambient television,' which just washes through you in a very polite way. I like television that grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go.
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It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.
