Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
-
Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
-
They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.
-
In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
-
You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
-
I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
-
When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
-
The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
-
If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it's good to have a makeup artist because they know what they're doing.
-
When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
-
Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
-
I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
-
Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
-
Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.
-
I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would.
-
I love Japan; it's very special.
-
This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
-
One person I find fascinating is J.Crew's Mickey Drexler. I would love to get into that brain and see how it works.
-
I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.
-
A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.
-
As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
-
The journalism, I was a financial journalist - it's very good training as a writer. You have to write for deadlines; you have a certain economy of phrasing. As a training ground as a writer, it's fantastic. I also think it teaches you to be observant, to listen to people, and gives you an ear of dialogue from doing interviews.
-
Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures.
-
To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
