Alfred Lansing Quotes

And all the defenses they had so carefully constructed to prevent hope from entering their minds collapsed.

Alfred Lansing

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• Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated - curated, contrived, edited. I think that's a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward.

  

  K. Flay
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Real

• I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • World
  • Hope

• I hope everybody thinks they've got the best album. I wouldn't have put mine out if I didn't think it was the best.

  

  Wale
  • Hope
  • Think
  • Best

• Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Acting

• The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.

  

  Aberjhani
  • America
  • Hope
  • Past

• What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • True
  • Hope

• In the history of photography, we have many masterpieces in terms of black and white books. You have Bresson's 'Decisive Moment,' Frank's 'The Americans'... many masterpieces. But there is nothing to this caliber in color. Well, I think I'll waltz with my muse and hope that I might be able to produce something on this order in color.

  

  Ralph Gibson
  • History
  • Hope
  • Black

• Half of Syria's refugees are children, and we know what can happen to children who grow to adulthood without hope or opportunity in refugee camps. The camps become fertile recruiting grounds for violent extremists.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Children
  • Hope
  • Opportunity

• There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl. I hope to start directing it.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Children
  • Hope
  • Dark

• My hope is that we will inspire more lesbians to get politically engaged. For too long, lesbian women have been left out of politics.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • Long
  • Women
  • Hope

• I was always a fan of the old-style comics. I loved vaudeville. I loved Milton Berle, Dick Shawn, Phyllis Diller, Don Rickles, Charlie Callas, all those guys. Hilarious. I love the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope movies, and Abbott & Costello. My television influences were 'Monty Python's Flying Circus,' 'Benny Hill,' and 'Hee Haw.'

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Hope
  • Style
  • Influences

• You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • People
  • May
  • Hope

• I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Hope
  • Want
  • Years

• What an extraordinary achievement. What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things. What a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Hope

• The rose is fairest when 't is budding new,And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew,And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Hope
  • Morning
  • Tears

• I think for it to be unhip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me had some sense of hope in them.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Hope
  • Weird

• The sex you're trading up forWhat you hope is loveIs just another thing thatHe'll be careless of.But though there are caveats galore,You've only got to love him more - And you do;You really do.Even when it's all too clear.

  

  Aimee Mann
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Sex

• The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Live
  • Hope

• I love India. I've always been drawn to it, and I hope that I get to visit the country soon.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Country
  • Hope

• I'm always pretty tense about everything when it comes to work.

  

  Matthew Goode
  • Work
  • Pretty

• If I had a project that I had auditioned for and I was getting close to getting it, I didn't want to tell anybody because I thought then I wouldn't get it, but in reality that really had no bearing on whether or not I got a part.

  

  Amy Adams
  • Reality

• It's hard to date once you're a big Star Wars star because you don't want to give people the ability to say, "I had sex with Princess Leia."

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • People
  • War
  • Sex

• And all the defenses they had so carefully constructed to prevent hope from entering their minds collapsed.

  

  Alfred Lansing
  • Hope
  • Entering
  • Defenses