Diogenes Quotes

If I lack awareness, then why should I care what happens to me when I am dead?

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• Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Always
  • More
  • Laugh

• I like to discover new things.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • Like
  • New
  • New Things

• You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Gay
  • Actor
  • Issues

• It's fun to play dress up for work, but when you have those off-days, it's nice to just be low-key.

  

  Maia Mitchell
  • Up
  • Work
  • Fun

• Fostering the leadership necessary for transformational outcomes in education is hard work, and in countries around the world, there is a constant search for easier solutions.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • World
  • Work
  • Education

• I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Afraid
  • Anything
  • On-screen

• I think the physical comedy in action sequences is fantastic. Like, '21 Jump Street' did a great job with that.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Great
  • Job
  • Action

• I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Work
  • Always
  • Actor

• Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I'm stronger.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • True
  • Dream
  • Feelings

• When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure everything is cool for me. You know, like drawing my bath and helping me into bed.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Home
  • Day
  • Cool

• In principle, I think the idea of rewarding a good effort is interesting, but movies are generally different from each other as are performances and the conditions on how the performances are given and how they're edited and so forth.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Good
  • Different
  • Interesting

• One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Me
  • Issues
  • Reform

• Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • War
  • Give
  • Nobody

• Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Taste
  • Personal
  • Niche

• I wanted a child, and there was no way I could get pregnant under the stress of 18-hour work days and live TV. When you're somebody who's used to making a decision about what they want to do and getting it and achieving it, when your body fails you, it's a whole other experience.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Work
  • Live
  • Experience

• If somebody takes masses of non-registered immigrants from the Middle East into a country, this also means importing terrorism, criminalism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Country
  • Terrorism

• The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me. So a lot of what 'Rookie' is about is just showing that you can be both, and you can like whatever you want.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Want
  • Feeling
  • Idea

• The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Truth
  • Listening
  • Murmuring

• These guys don't have all the physical ability but they are able to win basketball games because they play the right way.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Way
  • Basketball
  • Games

• When I used to perform weddings, the image I always had was the image of a triangle, in which there are two partners and then there is this third force, this third being, that emerges out of the interaction of these two. The third one is the one that is the shared awareness that lies behind the two of them.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Always
  • Lies
  • Awareness

• My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Dead
  • Hopes
  • Doom

• At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead.

  

  Albert Camus
  • People
  • Dead
  • Wished

• I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves; in pride of lineage so great as to despise no man's father; in pride of race so chivalrous as neither to offer bastardy to the weak nor beg wedlock of the strong, knowing that men may be brothers in Christ, even though they be not brothers-in-law.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Men

• If I lack awareness, then why should I care what happens to me when I am dead?

  

  Diogenes
  • Happens
  • Dead
  • Awareness