Anthony Giddens Quotes

The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.

Anthony Giddens

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• Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.

  

  Zoe Cassavetes
  • People
  • Struggle
  • Movies

• I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Good
  • Yourself
  • Pressure

• I climb mountains.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Mountains
  • Climb

• 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.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Book
  • Friends
  • Right

• A lot of my music has ambiguity and room for people to interpret.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Music
  • Ambiguity

• After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Want
  • Best
  • Lesbian

• 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.'

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Up
  • She
  • Man

• 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.'

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Work
  • Women
  • Power

• Place honey on the altars and die, You lovers that are bitter at heart.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Heart
  • Die
  • Bitter

• 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.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • She
  • House
  • Past

• When we do well, we do the best comedy on TV. That's not ego; that's just the way it is.

  

  Lorne Michaels
  • Comedy
  • Ego

• 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.'

  

  Lili Reinhart
  • People
  • Life
  • Character

• You're always concerned for your character. You should be.

  

  James Callis
  • Character

• I feel like I came to acting late in a way.

  

  David Duchovny

• When I go out to play, I still believe I'm as good as anyone out there. I don't have to prove anyone wrong. I know what I've done and how well I can play.

  

  Lleyton Hewitt
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Done

• I love the spy genre.

  

  Chris Pine

• Mighty cultures never - are almost never conquered. They crumble from within. And frankly, I think that a lot of Americans are acting like spoiled brats because everything isn't working out perfectly every time.

  

  Frank Miller
  • Time

• Beauty comes from the inside.

  

  Kathy Ireland

• Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Work
  • Risk
  • Chance

• There I was - 20 years old, living in Ireland, and I'd never heard the word 'venture capitalist.' But I'd said that I wanted a job that involved a lot of negotiation, a lot of yelling at people on the phone, and for it to be high-risk, high-reward.

  

  Chris Sacca
  • People
  • Job
  • High

• You really should be able to feel the higher power of music and be moved by it, rather than listening to me waffle on and having to explain it.

  

  Maynard James Keenan
  • Music
  • Power
  • Listening

• I hear people say all the time, "I'm not really religious, but I consider myself spiritual." I definitely have always been spiritual, being raised by my grandmother on that little acre in Mississippi, indoctrinated, born into the church and the ways of the church.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Time
  • Church

• The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.

  

  Anthony Giddens
  • Risk
  • Climate
  • Modernity