Raja Krishnamoorthi Quotes
The truth is that searching for our commonality instead of our differences could transform our dysfunctional politics.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
-
People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
-
I had this dream in my head of, if I got hired by 'SNL, what that moment would be like. And I dreamed that I would, like, collapse on the sidewalk and cry to the heavens. I got this call, and it didn't happen naturally. But I did it anyway because I wanted to have that moment. So I did collapse.
-
Many women do not want to venture out into the 'opinion world' until they are certain of themselves, the facts, and that they are right. They are afraid of being shot down. The result is often silence.
-
I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
-
I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
-
I know what it's like to go very fast on motorcycles. Those moments, they stay with you.
-
I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.
-
Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
-
Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.
-
My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.
-
I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
-
What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
-
Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
-
Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.
-
I've never read a self help book... the most self-help I've read is on a beer mat.
-
We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.
-
Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.
-
I completely identify with finding freedom in boundaries. That's why I tend to have more freedom when I write nonfiction over fiction: because I'm running up against actuality and beholden to the truth in a different way.
-
No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.
-
Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos -- art, not politics, is the remedy.
-
Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.
-
I make the money, and I don't have to take the abuse some of the stars do, opening up their personal life. I can go into a restaurant, sit down, and have a nice meal without being harassed. Arnold Schwarzenegger can't do that.
-
The truth is that searching for our commonality instead of our differences could transform our dysfunctional politics.
