Fidel Castro Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.
-
I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
-
When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
-
There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.
-
I used to shop in ASDA all the time. Every now and then I still go in to get a little salad for lunch.
-
I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
-
It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.
-
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
-
It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
-
I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.
-
We moved from the East coast to the town of Spokane, Washington, when I was about 13 years old, and I did not adapt very well to the, to the style of the place, and I spent most of my time in the public library.
-
A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.
-
The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar 'queen,' alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades.
-
I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.
-
The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.
-
I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.
-
I have always been very choosy, but as you grow older, your tolerance for crap becomes less. The role I will do today has to justify the time I take away from my kids and my husband. I love them, spend a lot of time with them and love doing things for them. So to go away for three to six months, I need something equally powerful.
-
A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.
-
I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it.
-
It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.
-
Sometimes Hollywood manages to knock a movie in its teeth so hard that it never manages to get back up.
-
If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.
-
I think it is tragic that a situation should arise where civilians on any side are killed. But it is almost a cliche to say that it is virtually unavoidable and this isn't unique to us alone.
-
No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
