John Hume Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.
-
I literally don't think about Oscar.
-
I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
-
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
-
I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.
-
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
-
Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
-
All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!
-
I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.
-
Some people can sing, and they can sing sing, but Brandy can not only sing sing, but she has a voice and a tone that is unlike any other.
-
I hear it all the time in the street: 'It's the crisp bloke.'
-
One of the ways I stuck out was I was a very passionate reader. There was probably a cyclical nature to that; the more I felt like an outcast, the more I sought refuge in books, and the more I sought refuge in books, the more it made me not speak the same language as my peers.
-
We are a profoundly interconnected species, as the global economic and ecological crises reveal in vivid and frightening detail. We must embrace the simple fact that we are dependent on and accountable to one another.
-
I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.
-
I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
-
Strategically we should despise all our enemies, while tactically we should take them all seriously.
-
Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment.
-
There are two things that kill a genius - a fatal disease and contentment. When a man is contented he goes to sleep. Voltaire had no chance to be contented, and so he wrote eternally and unceasingly, more than any other man in the history of the world.
-
I'm into politics - I'm interested in the election and how pissed off people get.
-
Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for centuries - just as long as other people have been pursuing happiness and writing books about it.
-
The faithful will be victorious over the sinners.
-
If there's anything about longevity in television, it's about knowing what to take and what to turn down, and what to stop.
-
In the end it all comes down to talent. You can talk all you want about intangibles, I just don't know what that means. Talent makes winners, not intangibles. Can nice guys win? Sure, nice guys can win - if they're nice guys with a lot of talent. Nice guys with a little talent finish fourth, and nice guys with no talent finish last.
-
We did not seek ideological confrontation.
