Rupert Friend Quotes

I don't think you can decide how famous or not you become.

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• A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Movie
  • Humanity
  • Human

• The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Money
  • Man
  • Enjoy

• It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Real
  • Interesting
  • Dad

• I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • Colors
  • Icon

• I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • World
  • Work
  • How

• I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Fight
  • Working
  • Hard

• Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right about certain things, wrong about other things, but I have absolutely nothing, no association whatsoever with Kahane Chai leaders.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Think
  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Live
  • Alone
  • Beauty

• I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started banging around on the piano, trying to be like The Beatles.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Trying
  • Three
  • Piano

• My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas.

  

  Patricia McCormick
  • Up
  • Book
  • Ideas

• The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Good
  • Leadership
  • Luck

• I'm one of those people who happen to like trees. I don't know why - I just do. As a kid, I loved to climb them. The distant, upper branches, especially, were celestial and alluring.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • People
  • Why
  • Trees

• There's a great and unutterable beauty in all this.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Great

• The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Moral

• Latinas who come to the U.S. should adapt, learn English and become a part of the community.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • Community
  • English

• What I really like is to be at home, working.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Home

• To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• I often write things, and then I think it's too personal for the Moodies. It's not something that I could share with other guys to say.

  

  Justin Hayward The Moody Blues

• The best teachers are those who keep students motivated, challenged and flourishing.

  

  John Kline
  • Motivated

• When I was a kid, we weren't really supposed to listen to secular music. But one day, I found a 'Led Zeppelin IV' cassette tape in the garage, and it was just amazing-sounding music, not like anything I'd heard before. I remember thinking: 'Well, if God created music, why is his music in church not as good as this?'

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Good
  • Music
  • God

• I'm not really into sci-fi movies, but I'm into the science of space a lot. I love astronomy and thinking about the nothingness of the everythingness of space.

  

  Milana Vayntrub
  • Thinking
  • Really
  • Astronomy

• The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Band

• The real disturbers of the peace are those who, in a free state, seek to curtail the liberty of judgment which they are unable to tyrannize over.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Free
  • Peace
  • State

• I don't think you can decide how famous or not you become.

  

  Rupert Friend
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