Val Kilmer Quotes

I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.

Val Kilmer

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• Fashion and music have always played off each other and certainly do for me; I love both so much. But there are definitely those moments when you're playing the right song at the right time in the right place, and it feels like the best job in the world.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Time
  • Music
  • Song

• All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Work
  • Transform
  • Rural

• If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • You
  • Doing
  • Living

• A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Heart
  • Free
  • Freedom

• The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • People
  • Government
  • German

• Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Thanks
  • Countries
  • Prophet

• Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • World
  • America
  • Elements

• Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Great
  • History
  • Understanding

• It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Good
  • Attention

• I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can't stay home waiting for something different. I think it's a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Different
  • Home
  • Energy

• One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Free
  • Problems

• I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Up
  • New
  • Rich

• I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Always
  • Dark
  • Never

• With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on an entirely different track - one which sees them move into fulfilling and sustainable work. In doing so, they will pull themselves out of poverty.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Up
  • Work
  • Different

• The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • United States
  • Greatest

• I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Pretty
  • Never
  • Body

• Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Happiness
  • Chance
  • Sufficient

• I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Good
  • Think

• I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Me

• Make that extra effort for every relationship. Whether it's with your parents, your children, your husband or your friends. It makes a difference to them. I try to give my kids a lot of solo time where I play with them, talk to them, listen to them. Similarly, you give time for your workout. You slot a time for it, no matter what.

  

  Kajol
  • Time
  • Children
  • Kids

• For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Stories

• I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Selling