George Chapman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
-
With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.
-
My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
-
Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
-
Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
-
I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.
-
I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
-
When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
-
I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.
-
I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
-
Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
-
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
-
No man fails who does his best.
-
I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.
-
If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.
-
If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.
-
There's some places where, I don't know if they're fiddle fans, or Natalie fans or if they just love Celtic music, but there's some places where there's just awesome crowds.
-
For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.
-
Yet it is incumbent on those in high places to make wise decisions and it is reasonable and important that the public be correctly informed. It is consequently incumbent on all of us to state the facts as forthrightly as possible.
-
One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
-
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
-
Do not make this practice a source of pressure, compulsion, anxiety or pride. It is none of these. Zazen is simply a way to find your true home.
-
Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture - you either add or you subtract.
-
Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.
