Cyprian Norwid Quotes

Beauty is to enthuse us for work, and work is to raise us up

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• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• I never pursued being 'famous.'

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Never
  • Famous
  • Being Famous

• Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Stage
  • Walk
  • Affection

• I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Great
  • Challenge
  • Looking

• When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Environment

• I introduced the Food Security Improvement Act in Congress to remedy the fact that most SNAP beneficiaries find themselves skipping meals or running out of benefits every month.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Food
  • Running
  • Improvement

• I hate negative ads in general.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Hate
  • Negative
  • General

• I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.

  

  Maggie Lawson
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • News

• Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Violence
  • End
  • Goals

• I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Love
  • Jazz
  • Grew

• I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Want
  • Military
  • Texas

• When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Country
  • Think
  • Artist

• In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because of a jazz drummer with that name. I later dropped the 'e.'

  

  Manfred Mann
  • Name
  • News
  • Jazz

• I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Friends

• A draft doesn't produce the people we need to satisfy our real manpower shortage. We need specialists to keep our jets flying.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • People
  • Real
  • Need

• Little white lies are told by humans all the time. Indeed, lying is often how we get through each day in a happy little bubble. We spend time and energy rationalizing our own behaviors, beliefs and decision-making processes.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Energy

• The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.

  

  Kahlil Gibran

• Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

  

  Charles Krauthammer
  • Country
  • Character
  • American

• A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Work
  • True

• I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • World
  • Women
  • America

• It's beautiful to dance alone, beautiful to dance with your children, beautiful to dance with your friends, beautiful to dance with your lover, or even collectively. But the ultimate dance is the one we do by ourselves, when we make ourselves known to God.

  

  Gabrielle Roth
  • God
  • Children
  • Friends

• For me, film is an extremely powerful way of conveying a message to a mainstream audience.

  

  Rachel Shenton
  • Powerful
  • Message
  • Mainstream

• Beauty is to enthuse us for work, and work is to raise us up

  

  Cyprian Norwid
  • Work
  • Raises