Natasha Tsakos Quotes
History is made by those who see beyond what already exists. They see all the things that don’t yet.
Quotes to Explore
-
I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
-
Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
-
I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
-
One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.
-
I never wrote my books especially for children.
-
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
-
I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
-
We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
-
Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.
-
Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
-
Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.
-
I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.
-
I am permanently relaxed.
-
In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn't really have enough men around to fill all the jobs. So there was this sudden demand that women come back and perform a lot of the white-collar and pink-collar roles that men had done before or that hadn't existed before.
-
You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.
-
Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
-
What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.
-
When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.
-
I was so grateful to win an Emmy, but just being nominated, it's not overrated!
-
I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
-
The three-toed tree-toadSings his sweet odeTo the moon;The funny bunnyAnd his honeyTrip in tune.
-
Many people don't know, but American Girl Scouts get to travel the world, and that's a very good thing, as the more we can expose our young people to other cultures, the better off we'll be in this increasingly globalized environment.
-
Beneath the broad tides of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depth the changes that take place upon the surface.
-
History is made by those who see beyond what already exists. They see all the things that don’t yet.
