G. Richard Wagoner Jr. Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
-
I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
-
Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
-
In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
-
I'd love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.
-
One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
-
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
-
I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
-
It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
-
I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
-
I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.
-
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
-
To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.
-
You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
-
Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
-
When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
-
I need to end up with someone who is strong, intelligent, independent, someone I really admire - sensitive, sensuous, warm, a sense of humor.
-
Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
-
Press bravely onward! - not in vain Your generous trust in human kind; The good which bloodshed could not gain Your peaceful zeal shall find.
-
I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.
-
A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
-
And I tell my audience, you know, give the real stars a round of applause. Because without them I'm nobody. So I learned so much from people like that.
-
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
-
History shows you don't know what the future brings.
