William Weld Quotes
It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.
Quotes to Explore
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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
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My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
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On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
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Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.
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I had my own motor boat which we would take to Khadakvasla, but that was 40 years ago.
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If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
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Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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I'm engaged to Hollywood. If there's something I find I have to do, I'll do it. Otherwise, I'll just stay home and have a vacation.
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I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.
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A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.
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The bad things are that our financing of health care is really a moral morass. It is a moral morass in the sense that it signals to the doctors and hospitals that human beings have different values depending on their income status.
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The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.
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Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.
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It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.
