Dan Buettner Quotes
Select your friendships carefully. Gather people around you who will reinforce your lifestyle.
Quotes to Explore
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I like to prove people wrong.
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I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.
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People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
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For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.
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I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.
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There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.
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There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
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I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.
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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
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I would love to win the Champions League once again. Winning big trophies like the Champions League or the World Cup is usually making people think, 'The players are not hungry any more.' Still, that's not what I feel.
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I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.
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When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.
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I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.
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I can't take the subway anymore. I think I can still take the bus, though. It's a double-edged sword because I'm grateful that people recognize and support me, but there are definite downsides to that.
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I want to know what people thought and what they wore and what they ate for breakfast.
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In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.
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It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.
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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
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Cultivated people foster what is good in others, not what is bad. Petty people do the opposite.
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The 'Story of Silent Night', which was given to me one Christmas when I was six - it was the story of a down and out composer who had no ideas left, and it was Christmas, and he came up with the hymn 'Silent Night.'
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Let your dreams be bigger than your fears and your actions louder than your words.
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I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.
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Select your friendships carefully. Gather people around you who will reinforce your lifestyle.
