William Haines Quotes
The only real freedom we have left is the home. Only there can we express anything we want.
Quotes to Explore
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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I don't really yell at people.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.
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I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I'm not scared to fail.
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I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.
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I often think about death, and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.
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Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.
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I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.
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We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.
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The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
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I like performing live more than anything. I get a little bit afraid in the studio.
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Senegal needs a renaissance.
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There are Tea Parties, and I would say plural, in California.
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Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
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I was smart enough to know it would probably make me a salable item for the paparazzi. I knew I’d have to move to a home that had a gate. But that pearl of possibility that lives in your heart when you meet somebody you want to know more about has such a different molecular density than everything else that you have to pursue it.
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Instituting equal pay is especially important because families in our country increasingly rely on women's wages to make ends meet. When women bring home less money each day, it means they have less for the everyday needs of their families - groceries, rent, child care, and doctors' visits.
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Academic Marxists were never going to be convinced that anything that happened in the real world could invalidate their belief system. Utopians of the Right, libertarians are just as convinced that their ideas have yet to be tried and that they would work beautifully if we could only just have a do-over of human history.
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The only real freedom we have left is the home. Only there can we express anything we want.
