Allen Tucker Quotes

The thing which we speak of as beauty does not have to be sought in distant lands. . . . It is here about us or it is nowhere.

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• I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Believe
  • History
  • Accidents

• My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • God
  • Believe
  • Energy

• Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Magic
  • Working
  • Watching

• Shortly after the end of last season, I felt that I probably would not return for the 1999-2000 season. I also felt that I should take as much time as possible to sort through my feelings and make sure that my feelings were backed with conviction.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Time
  • Feelings
  • End

• I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • I Can
  • Retire
  • Pedal

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

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Time
  • Great
  • Power

• I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Job
  • Creativity
  • Creative

• You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Fun
  • Hope
  • Care

• It used to be that you had to come to Silicon Valley, walk up Sand Hill Road, network with individuals. That's now being completely changed and turned on its head by the whole ICO thing.

  

  Balaji S. Srinivasan
  • Up
  • Road
  • Walk

• Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • History
  • Today
  • Beginning

• Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • Mind
  • Church
  • Force

• It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it since I was a little kid. That's my absolute rush, is playing for different people every night, bringing something else to the table they've never seen.

  

  Gary Allan
  • People
  • Night
  • Write

• I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Say

• I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years before people were even aware of me in terms of audience.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Good
  • Learn

• Seeing the road show of 'A Chorus Line' in 1977 at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Memphis was a life-changing event for me: there were gay people, on the stage, and they all lived in New York.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • People
  • Life
  • Road

• The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Myself
  • Self
  • Laugh

• I guarantee, that if I am elected, I will take over the White House, hang out, shoot pool, scratch my ass, and not do a damn thing . . . Which is to say, if you want something done, don't come to me to do it for you; you got to get together and figure out how to do it yourselves. Is that a deal?

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Done
  • Together
  • House

• I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Art
  • Funny
  • Inspiration

• Hail, blest Confusion! here are met All tongues, and times, and faces; The Lancers flirt with Juliet, The Brahmin talks of races.

  

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed
  • Race
  • Faces
  • Confusion

• If we had to pose for every single person at the Eat & Greets, we wouldn't get to speak to anyone that's there, and we definitely wouldn't get to serve them food.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Food
  • Single
  • Speak

• We have learned by now that our beauty does not count as a possession. The only thing we truly own is our legend.

  

  Bennett Madison
  • Beauty
  • Learned
  • Possession

• The thing which we speak of as beauty does not have to be sought in distant lands. . . . It is here about us or it is nowhere.

  

  Allen Tucker
  • Beauty
  • Speak
  • Sought