Stuart Wilde Quotes

The ego needs recognition. The spirit does not need to thank itself.

Stuart Wilde

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• Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Man
  • Stars
  • Theory

• I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Just
  • Director
  • One Thing

• In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Food

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Same

• I like to stay home with my family.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Family
  • Home
  • Like

• Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Day

• Being on set with my dad - that's so cool. People always ask me if that made me nervous, but it's the same element when you're a kid - when your parents come in the auditorium for those school performances. It calms you.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • People
  • School
  • Parents

• I'm a person who's always been interested in politics and thought it was a very noble occupation.

  

  Maggie Williams
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Politics

• Louis knew a few xenophobes, and regarded them as dolts.

  

  Larry Niven

• When you're spending eight to 10 hours out there, the homeless guy is no longer homeless; it's Dave. They become people to you. I think we're really good in this country about saying that they're homeless and, therefore, they don't exist.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • Good
  • Country

• My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them.

  

  James Hillman
  • Children
  • Death
  • Parents

• As a reporter, I embedded for modest stints with American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. When I'm asked about those experiences, I always say - and mean - that we civilians don't deserve the soldiers we have.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • American

• There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

  

  Louis Aragon

• Pessimists are born, true, but they also can be made.

  

  David Rakoff
  • True

• I believe we've spent many years trying to bring about talks which have all the Parties in Northern Ireland involved so that there'd be inclusive talks.

  

  Dick Spring
  • Believe
  • Trying

• The kind of acting I used to enjoy no longer exists because your prime consideration is the budget, running time, the cost - and whether they'll understand it in Milwaukee.

  

  Dirk Bogarde
  • Time
  • Running

• I look younger; I feel younger. I'm in no rush to grow up or seem older to people.

  

  Danielle Panabaker
  • People
  • Up

• We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.

  

  John Malkovich
  • World
  • Great
  • Truth

• Unlike the Marxists, the Nazis did not advocate public ownership of the means of production. They did demand that the government oversee and run the nation's economy. The issue of legal ownership is secondary; what counts is the issue of control. Private citizens, therefore, may continue to hold titles to property-so long as the state res...erves to itself the unqualified right to regulate the use of their property.

  

  Leonard Peikoff
  • Long
  • May
  • Control

• Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Forever
  • Growth
  • Spirit

• It's the same thing as a primitive of Africans, Indians, nomads or whatever - when they start getting up and doing their ritual and doing the dance, it's just what's coming through. It's the spirit. Rock 'n' roll is still primitive.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Dance

• The ego needs recognition. The spirit does not need to thank itself.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • Spirit
  • Ego
  • Recognition