Philip Massinger Quotes

He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.

Philip Massinger

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• I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Color

• I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Good
  • May
  • Proud

• There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• I was physically abused and I retaliated.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Physically

• Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a shallow and dangerous attitude to have.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Success
  • Attitude
  • Dangerous

• Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

  

  Karl Marx
  • World
  • Revolution
  • Win

• I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Never
  • Chance
  • Wanted

• In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Past
  • Explore

• I think if anybody had the opportunity to stay in one place and play ball, they would.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Think
  • Opportunity
  • Play

• I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Trying
  • Know
  • Same

• You could give the best audition ever and not get the role or not get a callback because you just weren't what they were looking for.

  

  Laura Spencer
  • You
  • Best
  • Looking

• The fact is that democracy anywhere in the world, including in the United States, is not something that comes easy. And yet, we are committed to it, and equality and democracy are the only ways in the long run that Jews will be safe in the Middle East.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • World
  • Long
  • Democracy

• My father is my inspiration.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Father
  • Inspiration

• I'm a very light sleeper. I get about six hours a night.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Night
  • Light
  • Hours

• This journey started about 42 years ago in a little town of Brunswick, Georgia.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Years
  • Journey
  • Town

• I'm not shutting myself off from kids; I'm remaining open to kids and the energy that they bring.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Kids
  • Energy
  • Myself

• Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book is so encyclopedic that space aliens could use it to re-create the whale fishery as it once existed on the planet Earth in the midst of the 19th century.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Book
  • American
  • History

• Responsibility educates.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Education
  • Responsibility

• In the first test screening of 'RoboCop,' it tested very high. Then they asked the people why they liked it, and the first answer was, 'I liked it because it was political.' And the second answer was because, 'It feels like it deals with current affairs.' And the third answer was, 'Because it feels emotional.'

  

  Joel Kinnaman
  • People
  • Why
  • High

• The Public provides freedom...Individualism begins after the roads are built, after individualists have had an education, after medical research has cured their diseases.

  

  George Lakoff
  • Research
  • Disease
  • Medical

• Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Knowledge
  • Fashion
  • Wise

• The real writer is one who really writes.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Real
  • Writer

• Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Death
  • Gods
  • Carry

• He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.

  

  Philip Massinger