Alfred Worden Quotes

Now I know why I'm here. Not for a closer look at the moon, but to look back at our home, the Earth.

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• My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Mind
  • Business
  • Creative

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.

  

  Ebon Moss-Bachrach
  • Reading
  • Learn
  • Better

• I am not keen just for the position; I'm keen to help and to serve. If I can really avoid any bad things on my country, I will not hesitate one second.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Country
  • Help
  • Position

• You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I always have the impression that I write the same book.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Book
  • Write
  • Same

• 'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Real
  • Job
  • Month

• What you see is what you get.

  

  Van Morrison
  • You
  • See
  • Get

• I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Love
  • Hero
  • Strength

• I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Understanding
  • Wonderful

• You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • You
  • Moment
  • Diamonds

• Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?

  

  Cal Thomas
  • Freedom
  • Honor
  • Lonely

• It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Society
  • Words
  • Practice

• Pineapple reduces swelling.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Swelling

• Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Beautiful
  • Funny
  • Yourself

• An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Door
  • Devil
  • Walk

• Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Opinion

• I believe that all nations - strong and weak alike - must adhere to standards that govern the use of force. I - like any head of state - reserve the right to act unilaterally if necessary to defend my nation. Nevertheless, I am convinced that adhering to standards, international standards, strengthens those who do, and isolates and weakens those who don't.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Strong

• If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • People
  • Drug

• I went to see 'Shine a Light,' and it was the most perfect thing I could have done to watch that man do what he does in front of an audience. It's primarily Mick Jagger, but they're all so confident and relaxed and in love with what they do, and aware of the power of what they do. It's just deeply, deeply attractive.

  

  Ben Daniels
  • Done
  • Power
  • Light

• The more complicated the character, the better I am. It's the one-dimensional crap that I had to do for years that drove me crazy.

  

  Martin Landau
  • Character
  • Crazy

• I feel like I'm a New Yorker to the bone. But there is a lot of the South in me. I know there is a lot of the South in my mannerisms. There's a lot of the South in my expectations of other people and how people treat each other. There's a lot of the South in the way I speak, but it could never be home.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • People
  • Home

• In the harshest place on Earth, ... love finds a way.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Love
  • Earth
  • Way

• Now I know why I'm here. Not for a closer look at the moon, but to look back at our home, the Earth.

  

  Alfred Worden
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  • Earth
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