Nathaniel Branden Quotes
I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.
Quotes to Explore
-
I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
-
Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
-
Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.
-
I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
-
I want to have an impact on my son.
-
'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
-
When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
-
I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
-
I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
-
Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
-
The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
-
I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
-
Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.
-
It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.
-
I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
-
Valuation depends on several factors. From an investor angle, they look at leadership position, management, and what the company's offerings are. I think these three things got 5/5 for a company like Flipkart, and that is what is driving valuations and growth.
-
Religion is so much more than the god you pray to. The religion that you associate with, it's culture, it is family, it is background. That is something that I have always grown up with.
-
I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.
-
The Republican 'Work Harder for Less' budget leaves more Americans even worse off than they are today. The 'People's Budget' makes the critical investments needed to give the American people exactly what they deserve - economic security and peace of mind - and helps grow our economy from the middle out.
-
We think it would be safer if the Bank of England had responsibility for solvency regulation of UK-based banks, as well as having an overall duty to keep the system solvent. Otherwise, there could be dangerous delays if a banking crisis did hit.
-
To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.
-
How wonderful to know that Christianity is more than a padded pew or a dim cathedral, but that it is a real, living, daily experience which goes on from grace to grace.
-
I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.
