Anthony Giddens Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
-
Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
-
Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.
-
Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
-
Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
-
Playing on the Burj Al Arab helipad was an unforgettable experience, and the view of Dubai was incredible.
-
I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.
-
I stay away from heavy-handed stuff, the good guy and the bad guy. It just doesn't interest me; all it does is create more fences between people, I think.
-
I climb mountains.
-
I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.
-
A lot of my music has ambiguity and room for people to interpret.
-
I know that I'm a natural attacking player. I love to attack. I love to play freely; I love to combine and play through balls. That's the nature of my game.
-
After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.
-
For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'
-
Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn't allow her to follow the usual script that powerful women are expected to follow - 'don't hate me for my success, don't hate me for my power.'
-
Place honey on the altars and die, You lovers that are bitter at heart.
-
It wasn't easy tolerating him talking this way to her, to bear his scorn, his ridicule, his insults, his walking past her like she was nothing but a house cat. But after four years of marriage, Mariam saw clearly how much a woman could tolerate when she was afraid. And Mariam was afraid.
-
When we do well, we do the best comedy on TV. That's not ego; that's just the way it is.
-
I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died.
-
Sometimes people will approach me on the street and ask me very personal questions about my dating life. Fans talk to me like they know me, and it's like, 'You don't know me. You know my character, but you really don't know me.'
-
There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate.
-
If you don't own traditional dumbbells, you can also use soup cans or bottles of water.
-
The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.
