Sean Penn Quotes

Jon Krakauer had documented it very accurately and very well but this kid made a real impression on people, and likewise they on him. To talk to them was very moving in many cases because they talk about him like they saw him yesterday. In most cases they knew this kid for a couple of weeks in their whole life and he just lasted with them.

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• I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Quality

• Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Men
  • Age
  • Guy

• The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • World
  • Man
  • Best

• The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • True
  • Labor
  • Source

• I tend to sleep in the nude... I'm a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like I'm boasting.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • You
  • Sleep
  • Woman

• There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Woman
  • Poetry
  • Destiny

• The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all sorts of misunderstandings, and to a certain extent, people do not get the full picture from the media. A lot of foreigners have few opportunities to visit China, and a lot of Chinese people do not have the chance to go to Europe or to the West.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • World
  • Picture

• I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Think
  • Where

• I have many times marveled at how I could feel so good about myself while eating peanuts in a middle seat on Southwest Airlines and yet feel so condescended to in first class on United.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Eating

• So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Way
  • Right
  • Say

• I'm a lot girlier than the roles that I play. I joke with Tricia Helfer all the time that she's my muscle.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Time
  • She
  • Play

• War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Up
  • War
  • Storm

• You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Important

• Patrick Demarchelier was the one who got me my first 'Vogue' cover. It was French 'Vogue' – I think in '87 or '88. I think I was the first black model to be on the cover of French Vogue, which was shocking to me because when I asked them about it, they were like, 'Oh, no. We've never had that before.'

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Think
  • Never
  • Model

• I always root for the defense.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Always
  • Defense
  • Root

• All the doors that I had to close. All the things I knew but I didn't know. Thank God for all I missed. 'Cause it led me here to this.

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
  • God
  • Knows
  • Causes

• In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Time
  • Children
  • Parents

• My mother is an actress, and my aunt Margaux was a model. And it's funny, as much as I'm all about I'm my own person, and I'm making my own name for myself, I have grown up in a world where most of these people who are like me are children of famous parents. So it's easy to become the socialite and be famous for that.

  

  Dree Hemingway
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Attitudes truly are contagious, and from time to time we need to ask ourselves, 'Is mine worth catching?'

  

  Mac Anderson
  • Time

• The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense that the safety nets had been cut away, that each citizen walked upon the high wire of this, the real world. I longed not merely to travel through it, but to live in such a city.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • World
  • Live
  • Real

• Jon Krakauer had documented it very accurately and very well but this kid made a real impression on people, and likewise they on him. To talk to them was very moving in many cases because they talk about him like they saw him yesterday. In most cases they knew this kid for a couple of weeks in their whole life and he just lasted with them.

  

  Sean Penn
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