Gary Ackerman Quotes

India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it.

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• When I was little, one of my father's friends owned a circus. For four absolutely incredible summers, I found myself being the only boy in Ireland who didn't dream of running away with the circus. I was in it!

  

  Ian Beattie
  • Friends
  • Father
  • Dream

• Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Prospect
  • Visual

• We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Up
  • She
  • Friends

• Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Change
  • Beginning

• There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Myself
  • Learn
  • Criticism

• The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Age
  • Beginning
  • Enlightenment

• Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Good
  • Rock
  • Metal

• I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Up
  • Same
  • Roots

• The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Death
  • Political
  • Content

• I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Know
  • Best
  • End

• When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Inspiration
  • Voice
  • Empowerment

• You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Water

• An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • Day
  • Thanksgiving
  • Diet

• I will admit to hoarding beauty products. I'm a beauty lady.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Beauty
  • Lady
  • Admit

• Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Good
  • Why
  • Action

• I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.

  

  Hani Furstenberg
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Actress

• When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Thought
  • Fresh
  • Them

• Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Wonder
  • Spiritual
  • Practice

• Once in a night as black as pitchIsabel met a wicked old witch.the witch's face was cross and wrinkled,The witch's gums with teeth were sprinkled.Ho, ho, Isabel! the old witch crowed,I'll turn you into an ugly toad!

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Night
  • Black
  • Ugly

• The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Courage
  • Vulnerability

• Oscar De La Hoya is unique. Even Ray Leonard didn't have the star power Oscar has.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • Power
  • Star
  • Unique

• The saving power of the cross does not depend on faith being addded to it; its saving power is such that faith flows from it

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Power
  • Faith

• Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action.

  

  Plutarch
  • Action
  • Serious

• India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Power
  • Need
  • India