Ami Vitale Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.
-
I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
-
I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
-
Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?
-
I had a restaurant in Georgia for a while, and I really miss feeding everybody.
-
Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
-
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
-
Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.
-
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
-
If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.
-
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
-
I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.
-
The only certainty we have is that those who are certain of a way to arrive at worldly salvation, are committed enough to organize around this, and seek power to enforce it, will invariably descend into a bloody totalitarian fascism.
-
I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?
-
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
-
Having an animal that you fix, knowing that you saved its life or you saved a pet - Like on a dog, these little kids will come, and their dog is just ready to die, and you do something, and they leave happy. The kids are happy, and the little puppy is licking your hand. Those are kind of neat feelings.
-
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
-
The facts of science, as they appeared to him Heraclitus, fed the flame in his soul, and in its light, he saw into the depths of the world.
-
I mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects, it is a grassroots movement.
-
I'm just being myself. I'm not a very complex guy; I'm not a very studious, crazy intellectual guy. I'm just a guy.
-
What did school matter compared to a sister?
-
Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
-
To learn that happiness is what brings success, and not the other.
