John Whiting Quotes

Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic.

John Whiting

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• I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.

  

  Samantha Isler
  • Drama
  • Act
  • Queen

• When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • World
  • Energy
  • Positive

• I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Learning
  • Road
  • English

• All you should try to do is behave with honour. If you can. At all times.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • You
  • Try
  • Times

• From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Time
  • War
  • End

• Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Way
  • Respect
  • Leadership

• If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Effort
  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Think
  • Me
  • Play

• I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the center of events.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • People
  • Writing
  • School

• Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Experience
  • Want
  • Motorcycle

• I speak very highly of Jim Thome. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great individual.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Great
  • Player
  • Speak

• If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to 'dissolve' harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Mind
  • Culture
  • Enlightenment

• Money isn't everything. Do you get married because of money? Do you have kids because of money?

  

  Walter Payton
  • Money
  • Kids
  • You

• I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • American
  • Running
  • Space

• Whenever someone comes up to me saying, 'I saw you in 'Carlos' and then I saw the rest of your movies,' for me, it's an expression that we might be doing something well. So my life hasn't changed that much. I just try not to go to very crowded places if I'm not in the mood.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Movies
  • Mood

• I went to a school called Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. I went because initially I was very naughty, and my mom thought if I was busy, I'd be better. And I didn't really do acting until later on in the school, with an amazing teacher. I left, went traveling, came back.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • School
  • Amazing
  • Mom

• Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Living
  • London
  • Luxury

• I would have loved to have another 10 Eric Ambler books.

  

  Alan Furst

• Certainly amongst all devotions, after that of receiving the sacraments, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament holds first place, is most pleasing to God, and most useful to ourselves. Do not then, O devout soul, refuse to begin this devotion; and forsaking the conversation of men, dwell each day, from this time forward, for at least half or quarter of an hour, in some church, in the presence of Jesus Christ under the sacramental species. Taste and see how sweet is the Lord.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Time
  • God
  • Men

• I never thought in terms of career. I just saw it in terms of being able to play and sing and doing what you wanted to, and being a free guy. I never had ambitions to be a star or anything like that. I wanted to do my own thing and do it my way, and people could take it or leave it, which was a pretty arrogant attitude.

  

  Stevie Young
  • Career
  • Attitude
  • Ambitions

• Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic.

  

  John Whiting