Sargent Shriver Quotes
When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.
Quotes to Explore
-
Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
-
No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
-
'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
-
A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
-
In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
-
Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
-
People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
-
Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.
-
Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.
-
When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.
-
I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And when he gets to full stride, for every two steps the other guy's taking, he's just taking one.
-
I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.
-
Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'
-
I honestly think that kids should not exercise: they should keep fit through play. The most important age is zero to seven, both for the kid and the parent - for parents, because this is the time when your kid learns how to walk, talk and other behaviour.
-
We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
-
If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
-
Joan of Arc was born 600 years ago. Six centuries is a long time to continue to mark the birth of a girl who, according to her family and friends, knew little more than spinning and watching over her father's flocks.
-
Sometimes we misjudge what is possible and what is not.
-
With theatre, we all agree to suspend our disbelief about so many things, but not about race. It's totally OK to have one actor playing five roles - people are willing to believe that. But they won't believe it if there's a black or an Asian kid who has white parents. What does that say about us?
-
I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don't matter to anyone but themselves. I look up at the sky and I see you there.
-
Once when Harry asked Ed why they didn't go back to Toledo, Ed looked at him with that smartass squint and asked, 'You ever been to Toledo?'
-
When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.
