Tilda Swinton Quotes

I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.

Tilda Swinton

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• We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Great
  • Understanding
  • Challenge

• Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Why
  • Words
  • Moment

• 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.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Home
  • Age
  • Independent

• I'm not the 'look at me' kind of a person. I do not like showing off in public or written about.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Person
  • Public
  • Written

• When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Him
  • Phone
  • Yesterday

• The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

  

  Victor Cousin
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Way

• More passengers fly in and out of London than any other city in the world. We are well-connected, we have ample capacity, and we are starting from a position of strength. The problem is that we don't use that capacity well.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • World
  • City
  • Fly

• My father was a military attache, so I've been traveling all my life.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Father
  • Military

• I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Up
  • Acting
  • Grow

• I'm a fan of Jay-Z, I'mma always be a fan of Jay-Z.

  

  T-Pain
  • Always
  • Fan
  • Jay-Z

• Whoso walketh in solitude, And inhabiteth the wood, Choosing light, wave, rock, and bird, Before the money-loving herd, Into that forester shall pass From these companions power and grace.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Power
  • Light

• Because in big and diverse societies like ours, progress ultimately depends on something more basic, and that is how we see each other. And we know from experience what makes nations strong. And Neha I think did a great job of describing the essence of what’s important here. We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Important
  • Experience

• What’s our excuse today for not voting? How do we so casually discard the right for which so many fought? How do we so fully give away our power, our voice, in shaping America’s future? Why are we pointing to somebody else when we could take the time just to go to the polling places? We give away our power.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Why
  • Power

• I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Past
  • Lies
  • Excuses

• After independence most governments were formed by Cong. And the few times BJP came to power, it was a coalition. But this is the first time that we have won purely on our own-with a national agenda based on governance.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Time
  • Power

• Bush Administration was a success.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Success

• The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Future
  • Past

• We mutually agreed that 'we' weren't working out.

  

  Carrie Underwood

• I would like to know what politicians eat on the campaign trail, what Picasso ate in his pink period, what Walt Whitman ate while writing the verse that defined America, what mid-westerners bring to potlucks, what is served at company banquets, what is in a Sunday dinner these days, and what workers bring for lunch.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • Writing
  • America
  • Period

• Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Age
  • Talent
  • Judgment

• Nothing is more important to our shared future than the well-being of children. For children are at our core - not only as vulnerable beings in need of love and care but as a moral touchstone amidst the complexity and contentiousness of modern life.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Children
  • Future

• Our constituents deserve better than narrow-minded political games.

  

  Stephen Fincher
  • Political
  • Games
  • Deserve

• You have to get out of your comfort zone in order to grow. And as an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged. And unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Comedy
  • Color

• I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.

  

  Tilda Swinton