George Washington Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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I don't get star-struck at all.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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How does one endure in a place they shouldn't be condemned to live in? You could take that same question and apply it to any number of neighborhoods in any number of cities.
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Some actors can create characters and leave them at 'Cut!', but I work the opposite way and drag them out of me. For me, it's about fixing your fabric to fit the role.
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To me, a strong sense of self isn't believing in a lot.
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Control your own destiny or someone else will.
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I must say that I always thought I had a voice, even when I was 4 years old.
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I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next thing I knew I was turning acting down.
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I think it comes very naturally. It’s wonderful to be light and informal rather than aloof and indifferent- (On his personal camaraderie with his co-stars).
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In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.
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Oh Carol, don't let him steal your heart away I'm gonna learn to dance if it takes me all night and day
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I have a horrible sense of direction.
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The thing is, we live in a contemporary world, and being able to make yourself the best person you can possible be can be difficult. But as long as you're trying to figure it out, and you're really looking in the right direction, everything's going to be all right.
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What I do know is that I love the whole idea of family, even the word itself.
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There is no such thing as a Democratic or Republican road, bridge, port, airfield or rail system.
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I got to know Coach Wooden at the end of his life.
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But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.
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Feckless as it was for Bush to ask Americans to go shopping after 9/11, we all too enthusiastically followed his lead, whether we were wealthy, working-class or in between. We spent a decade feasting on easy money, don't-pay-as-you-go consumerism and a metastasizing celebrity culture.
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In general, I distrust philosophy. Plato recommended chasing poets from the city; the 'great' Heidegger was a Nazi; Lukacs was a communist; and J. P. Sartre wrote: 'Any anti-communist is a dog.'
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Me and Tricky like playing with each other.
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You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good.
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I remember, when I was a teenager, 'Pride And Prejudice' came out. We hadn't had a period drama for ages, and were all glued to it, and for the next three years, Jane Austen series were being made.
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Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
