Philipp Meyer Quotes
There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
-
In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
-
It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
-
I don't look at myself as suffering.
-
It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
-
I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
-
I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
-
Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
-
Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
-
I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
-
The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.
-
Acknowledging your mistakes also has its pluses, but we often don't have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if you don't acknowledge your successes the same way you acknowledge your mistakes, you're sure to have a memory full of blunders.
-
And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.
-
I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
-
Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
-
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
-
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
-
Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
-
Most of the people I know who work out seriously do so because they have such an amazing outlook on life. To be who I want to be, I'm going to work out to be more positive, more active. It's proactive.
-
There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.
-
No one truly understood what it is to exist as someone who has to do the things that Jack Bauer does.
-
We have to come into this industry so young, and you have to learn to take it as it is. I was scouted at 14, started modelling at 15, and lived in New York at 16.
-
There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.
