Robert Winston Quotes

When I look in the mirror, I am slightly reminded of self-portraits by Durer and by Rembrandt, because they both show a degree of introspection. I see some element of disappointment; I see a sense of humour, but also something that is faintly ridiculous; and I see somebody who is frightened of being found out and thought lightweight.

Robert Winston

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• Disappointment
• Element
• Humour

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• Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Good
  • School
  • Passion

• I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Work
  • Point
  • Critical

• The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • World
  • Today
  • Tomorrow

• Friends would not say I'm a laid-back person by any means.

  

  Lauren Weisberger
  • Friends

• No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.

  

  Agnes Smedley
  • Today

• When I was writing about Gotham in 'Broken City,' I was writing about Chicago. I just substituted the names.

  

  Brian Azzarello
  • Writing
  • City
  • Broken

• We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.

  

  Jill Tarter
  • Long

• Due to hate, fear, and oppression, the North Koreans cannot help themselves.

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • Help
  • Fear
  • Hate

• Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights.

  

  George B. McClellan
  • People
  • Peace
  • Universe

• I'm not a cheater. I've never cheated in my life.

  

  Jon Hamm
  • Life

• Gwen Stefani has amazing style. I used to really love Courtney Love, and anything she wore I loved. Or Chloe Sevigny, because I really love that sort of classic look, and I like being girly and flowery, and wearing little D&G dresses. I wear hats a lot, too. I think it goes back to when I was a bit grungy and was a skater girl for a bit.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Girl

• Love should be that person that inspires you to be a better person.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Should
  • Persons
  • Inspire

• Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. If you change your thinking, you change your life.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Thoughts

• For now, whether you are young or whether you're young at heart, I do have one final ask of you as your president, the same thing I asked when you took a chance on me eight years ago. I am asking you to believe not in my ability to bring about change, but in yours.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Eight

• Just breathe. Sometimes you're only a few breaths away from feeling better.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Feeling
  • Breathe

• The (House) managers spent much of their time last week explaining to you why, if only witnesses could be called, you would be able to resolve all of the supposed conflicts in the evidence.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • Time
  • Why
  • House

• We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.

  

  George Eliot
  • Hurt
  • Pride
  • Disappointment

• Worriers spend a lot of time shoveling smoke.

  

  Claude Maxwell MacDonald
  • Time
  • Smoke
  • Worriers

• When I look in the mirror, I am slightly reminded of self-portraits by Durer and by Rembrandt, because they both show a degree of introspection. I see some element of disappointment; I see a sense of humour, but also something that is faintly ridiculous; and I see somebody who is frightened of being found out and thought lightweight.

  

  Robert Winston
  • Found
  • Disappointment
  • Element