Ian Somerhalder Quotes

You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.

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• I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Want
  • Science
  • Learning

• A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Great
  • Why
  • Me

• I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.

  

  Yuji Horii
  • Why
  • Wonder
  • Battle

• Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Time
  • Art
  • Sense

• There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Thinking
  • Democracy
  • Idea

• They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Character
  • Man
  • Boy

• I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Tree
  • Born

• I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Age
  • Lead
  • Landscape

• Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Smart
  • Emotion
  • Face

• A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Like

• I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Just
  • Union
  • Square

• In closing, let me just thank God, on the floor of the House, for not turning away from us even though we seem to be turning away from Him.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • God
  • House
  • Me

• 'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Life
  • Time
  • Job

• The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Identity
  • Own
  • Weakness

• The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Best
  • Choose
  • Heroes

• As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Food
  • Control
  • Living

• It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Better
  • Wait
  • Finish

• My social philosophy may be said to be enshrined in three words: liberty, equality and fraternity. Let no one, however, say that I have borrowed by philosophy from the French Revolution. I have not. My philosophy has roots in religion and not in political science. I have derived them from the teachings of my Master, the Buddha.

  

  Babasaheb
  • May
  • Political
  • Science

• I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.

  

  Mavis Staples
  • People
  • Money
  • Purpose

• When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Drummer

• I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for...

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Live
  • Brainwork

• You start noticing that people are noticing how you look, and it is a profoundly alienating experience when it first happens, where you go on TV and you say something about some topic of the day, and on the Internet people are like, 'What was up with that shirt?' 'What was up with your hair?' And you think, 'Oh, that's kind of a bummer.'

  

  Chris Hayes
  • People
  • Up
  • Experience

• You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
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