Norman Davies Quotes
Myth-making is absolutely necessary to create the simplified images that people live off.
Quotes to Explore
-
Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
-
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
-
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
-
You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
-
If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
-
'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.
-
I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
-
Actors, after all, dream.
Nastassja Kinski -
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
-
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
-
One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.
-
People either think I'm this totally savage, idiot-savant genius guy who's lucked out or they think I'm a super-manipulative crafty businessman, this kind of MBA guy who's spotted a gap in the market and knows how to create a product for it. It's flattering, but I've not got that much of a gameplan.
-
It is the ability of governments to acquire money without direct taxation that makes modern warfare possible, and a central bank has become the preferred method of accomplishing that.
-
I go to movies. I blend in.
-
Greed puts out the sun.
-
More money means litigating, more player-hating. Got a cell at the pen, for me waiting. Is this my fate?
-
Glenda Bailey is a woman after my own heart who believes that climbing the career ladder can be overrated, to say the least. After all, why not just go for what you want now?
-
At Harvard, where students tend to respond to real-world celebrities with the vague sense that they could do a better job themselves, the recipe for celebrity is complex.
-
For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings.
-
All I want is to be more famous than anything or anyone.
-
The sanctions have nothing to do with our relations with China, because our relations with the People's Republic of China are at an unprecedented high both in terms of their level and substance. They are what we call "a comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation".
-
If people have nothing to brag about, they brag about their misfortunes.
-
Myth-making is absolutely necessary to create the simplified images that people live off.
