Mia Farrow Quotes

I learned that you can't truly own anything, that true ownership comes only in the moment of giving.

Mia Farrow

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• I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Father
  • Me
  • Friendly

• I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Control

• The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.

  

  Larry King
  • Money
  • America
  • Support

• Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.

  

  Barry White
  • Strong
  • Families
  • Brothers

• Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Human
  • Human Beings
  • Duties

• I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Couple
  • Bills

• What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Poor
  • Take

• Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • History
  • Ideas
  • Human

• People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner the market on opinion. Should I lose my job 'cause I offended somebody? No, of course not. Your life should never be affected by public opinion.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Life
  • Job

• I've danced my whole life. Martial arts is just fun for me, it's all choreographed a bit like dance. I have done Muay Thai and Wushu, which is cool because it's very fluid dance. I also do Tricking. It's kind of like Taekwondo with the big kicks and flips and showier aspects of martial arts.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Life
  • Done
  • Fun

• Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Best

• Anybody can talk me round. If I were in a Trappist monastery, the first thing that would happen would be that some smooth performer would lure me into some frightful idiocy against my better judgment by means of the deaf-and-dumb language.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Dumb

• I am not in Us Weekly. I'd have to be going out with someone who is in there to be in there myself.

  

  John Mayer

• The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Time

• The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Age
  • Stop
  • Wisdom

• I was a very strange child.

  

  Alessia Cara

• Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • World
  • Heart
  • America

• If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Light
  • Trust
  • Depression

• Sustainability is a part of our 'rise' philosophy. You cannot rise if you take more from the community than you put back.

  

  Anand Mahindra
  • Community

• It doesn't do any good to just be on the side of black people. The funnier comedic position is to be on the side of oppressed people in general.

  

  W. Kamau Bell
  • People
  • Good
  • Black

• When I give over to somebody's vision rather than have an idea of what I need to do, it takes me to places I wouldn't have got to by myself. I'm always attracted to a strong director.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Strong
  • Giving
  • Vision

• Colored lights shone right across the northern sky, leaping and flaring, spreading in rainbow hues from horizon to zenith: blood red to rose pink, saffron yellow to delicate primrose, pale green, aquamarine to darkest indigo. Great veils of color swathed the heavens, rising and falling as light seen through cascading curtains of water. Streamers shot out in great shifting beams as if God had put his thumb across the sun.

  

  Celia Rees
  • Fall
  • Water
  • Heaven

• The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The reason is becoming the enemy that prevents us from a lot of possibilities of pleasure.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Ego
  • Instinct
  • Possibilities

• I learned that you can't truly own anything, that true ownership comes only in the moment of giving.

  

  Mia Farrow
  • Giving
  • Moments
  • Ownership