Michael Douglas Quotes

I have met with political leaders, legislators, and diplomats, seeking the next steps to press in reducing and eliminating the nuclear threat in this century. I have participated in public coalitions developing programmes for action to combat the global rash of small arms. All are trying and making a difference.

Michael Douglas

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• I have absolutely no idea about space exploration. I'm a software guy. But because I'm a non-expert, I've been able to bring the software concept of modularity into the space sector, which was never done before.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Done
  • Guy
  • Space

• The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.

  

  Liam Neeson
  • Life
  • Prayer
  • Catholic

• It is important for me to remember that time learning anything substantial, even if it's not my favourite topic, is time well used.

  

  Ann Makosinski
  • Time
  • Important
  • Remember

• It is interesting to see how far we've come as a society since then. But also how everybody keeps touching [Ronald] Reagan and trying to evoke him.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Trying
  • Society
  • Interesting

• Shamanic healing is a journey. It involves stepping out of our habitual roles, our conventional scripts, and improvising a dancing path.

  

  Gabrielle Roth
  • Wise
  • Path
  • Journey

• Kong Qiu, or Master Kong as he was known, did not live to see his days of glory. During his lifetime, his views were received with scorn. But that was about two thousand five hundred years ago. A handful of his dedicated followers passed on Confucius' teachings to future generations. After Confucius' death, his followers published his teachings in the book, The Analects of Confucius.

  

  Confucius
  • Glory
  • Received
  • Teachings

• Precisely those conservative evangelical scholars who claim that mass hallucinations don’t happen are the ones who deny that the Blessed Virgin Mary has appeared to hundreds or thousands of people at once, even though we have modern, verified eyewitness testimony that she has.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Blessed
  • Testimony
  • Scholars

• It doesn't matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people that's frightening.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Matter
  • Influence
  • Psychedelic

• From Lee: I believe that the mind may make its own immortality : thought is the spiritual part of existence ; and so long as my mind influences others, so long as my thoughts remain behind, so long shall my spirit be conscious and immortal. The body may perish-not so the essence which survives in the living and lasting page.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Mind

• Concealed handgun licenses contain all of the identifying information required by the TSA. It is time they recognize these licenses as acceptable forms of identification.

  

  Bill Flores
  • Time

• I'm really incredibly stubborn - you can ask my ex-husband. I think when you tell me 'no', if it's something I really want, I'm just going to push harder.

  

  Kathryn Stockett
  • Husband

• Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Great
  • Positive
  • Fool

• I would like to thank the Western diplomats, especially Mr Solana and Mr Robertson, because their contribution truly benefits humanity and us Albanians as well because we are part of the great European family.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Humanity
  • Contribution
  • Diplomats

• That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws were made by Solon and others prohibiting an individual from possessing as much land as he pleased.

  

  Aristotle
  • Society
  • Political
  • Individual

• Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Liberty
  • Legislators
  • Revolutionaries

• An ambassador has no need of spies; his character is always sacred.

  

  George Washington
  • Character
  • Spy
  • Ambassadors

• You have to be a political leader, willing to lose an election if you want to do what's right.

  

  Scott Pelley
  • Lose
  • Election
  • Political Leaders

• Les êtres humains avouent leurs pires faiblesses quand ils s'étonnent qu'un maître du monde ne soit pas sottement indolent, présomptueux, ou cruel.

  

  Marguerite Yourcenar

• I was actually grateful for being arrested, for the judge that promised me that I would go to prison if I didn't stay clean, because I listened to him and something clicked. Those two years when we were making album "Ultra" and I had to go back and forth to court to prove to the judge that I'd stayed clean, it gave me this time to suddenly realize, "Oh, I can do this, I can crawl my way back, I can get better. And I do want to be here."

  

  Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
  • Judge
  • Grateful
  • Prison

• Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Art
  • Freedom

• “European emigrants and their descendants are all over the place, which requires explanation.”

  

  Alfred W. Crosby
  • Place
  • Explanation
  • Emigrants

• I have met with political leaders, legislators, and diplomats, seeking the next steps to press in reducing and eliminating the nuclear threat in this century. I have participated in public coalitions developing programmes for action to combat the global rash of small arms. All are trying and making a difference.

  

  Michael Douglas
  • Legislators
  • Diplomats
  • Political Leaders