Ruth Negga Quotes
You don't come to see a Greek play and not want blood and gore and depth of feeling from your boots up.
Quotes to Explore
-
While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.
-
I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
-
Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
-
When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.
-
We may define therapy as a search for value.
-
People had an idea of what R&B artists or pop artists usually say, which was like, 'Talk about sex, talk about partying, and be positive; don't be too much of a downer.'
-
If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.
-
A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
-
Sweet is good. I'm not a fan of deep-fried things.
-
'Giving 2.0' was born of my desire to redefine and democratize philanthropy.
-
I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
-
Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace.
-
We're trying to make money, trying to add a zero onto our net worth.
-
My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.
-
If you're not willing to accept the pain real values incur, don't bother going to the trouble of formulating a values statement. You'll be better off without one.
-
Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get.
-
My father is a Jehovah's Witness, and he raised us under a very strict hand.
-
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
-
Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.
-
After one of my plays came out, I had mixed reviews, some bad and some good. One day, it dawned on me. I thought, 'I wrote a play and he wrote a review, and that's the difference between him and me.'
-
The rule is to try and never play the same thing twice when you have the freedom to do that in the song.
-
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
-
... the place you're in is pretty near what you're fitted to fill. Otherwise you'd get out and fill another.
-
You don't come to see a Greek play and not want blood and gore and depth of feeling from your boots up.
