Cecil Balmond Quotes

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Cecil Balmond

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• Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Life
  • Live
  • Powerful

• What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • People
  • Words
  • Focus

• Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Powerful
  • Advice
  • Example

• Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Soul
  • Man
  • Interesting

• Two powerful people can't be friends.

  

  Karan Johar
  • People
  • Friends
  • Powerful

• I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Kind
  • Powerful
  • Animal

• I'm really enjoying being able to do these unhinged comedies and emotional dramas alike. I'm having a lovely time. After shooting a role that requires months of crying, it's quite nice to be able to play something very different.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Time
  • Different
  • Nice

• My songs are all about celebrating poignant music. While some of them focus on fun and revelry, they are fortunately backed by powerful lyrics. Put together, the lyrics, tune and my voice strive to take the songs to the next level.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Together
  • Fun

• What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Powerful
  • Need
  • New

• Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.

  

  Breyten Breytenbach
  • Mind
  • War
  • History

• The future is to heal back to the mind again. Recognizing that the mind is all powerful - it controls every cell to every degree of its genetic expression.

  

  Bruce Lipton
  • Mind
  • Future
  • Powerful

• There are a lot of impractical things about owning a Porsche. But they're all offset by the driving experience. It really is unique. Lamborghinis and Ferraris come close. And they are more powerful, but they don't handle like a Porsche.

  

  Kevin O'Leary
  • Experience
  • Powerful
  • Unique

• We didn't take Charlize Theron seriously until she did 'Monster' and became physically ugly. I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful.

  

  Amber Heard
  • Women
  • She
  • Beautiful

• I think, in the past, being brave - being powerful, being strong - were qualities that people associated with being masculine. And I think... no, I don't think - I know that now we're realizing they can be feminine, too.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • People
  • Past
  • Strong

• I went to Moscow and met some slightly powerful and scary people.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Scary

• Crimes of the century differ from the garden variety of murders. They involve wealth, celebrity and powerful attorneys, and live on for decades after the verdict has been rendered.

  

  Armand Deutsch
  • Live
  • Powerful
  • Garden

• There are plenty of studies that have shown that depression is associated with decreased immunity. So I want to harness all of the positive emotional energy I can in a patient to get better.

  

  Allan Hamilton
  • Energy
  • Positive
  • Emotional

• The mind is really powerful.

  

  Oksana Masters
  • Mind
  • Powerful

• I work out on almost a daily basis wherever I am, but yoga brings into that equation something that is ideal for me to maintain a physical and emotional and mental kind of balance, and to stay healthy - I see it as a way of investing in my future.

  

  Queen Noor of Jordan
  • Work
  • Future
  • Emotional

• Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.

  

  Gene Tierney
  • Girl
  • Eyes

• Mary Queen of Scots had a little dog, a Skye terrier, that was devoted to her. Moments after Mary was beheaded, the people who were watching saw her skirts moving about and they thought her headless body was trying to get itself to its feet. But the movement turned out to be her dog, which she had carried to the block with her, hidden in her skirts. Mary Stuart is supposed to have faced her execution with grace and courage (she wore a scarlet chemise to suggest she was being martyred), but I don’t think she could have been so brave if she had not secretly been holding tight to her Skye terrier, feeling his warm, silky fur against her trembling skin.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Moving
  • Dog
  • Movement

• I feel very proud of everyone I've worked with on 'SpongeBob' because they're all brilliant artists working at the top of their game to make something really special, and I think audiences feel that.

  

  Ethan Slater
  • Game
  • Proud
  • Audiences

• The abstract has no emotional content... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is.

  

  Cecil Balmond
  • Powerful
  • Emotional
  • Abstract