Carl Sandburg Quotes

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

Carl Sandburg

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• Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Being
  • Celebrity
  • Talk

• All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.

  

  Ian Holm
  • Acting
  • Role
  • Performances

• I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Music
  • Country
  • Think

• A month alone would make me so happy. Not good for my dating prospects.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Alone

• Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Wife
  • Soup
  • Sharing

• Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Words

• Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Want
  • Should
  • Because

• Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Mean

• I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Today
  • Thought
  • Wise

• The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Long
  • Women
  • Struggle

• 'Heartbeats' is a film on people magnifying and subliming reality when they're in love. Hence the overstylized look, the aesthetics, the robes, the dresses, the vintage, hipster-ish look: All of this is voluntary. I'm not a hipster. I'm not!

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Reality
  • Film

• I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Different
  • Always
  • Strange

• I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Music
  • Love
  • Singing

• Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Love
  • Crime
  • For Him

• Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.

  

  G-Eazy
  • People
  • Important
  • Touch

• Every girl has days when she doesn't like her appearance, but it's when you feel happy in yourself that you look good.

  

  Hannah Tointon
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Girl

• I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Positive
  • Optimistic

• The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Life
  • Great
  • Death

• We've had so many faith-based movies that I think are sub-par; I almost want a new phrase for them.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • Faith

• Basically, you're selling a world as an actor, right? I mean it's like any sales person: if you believe in your product, you know your product, you sell it a lot better.

  

  Paul Walker
  • World
  • Believe
  • Sales

• The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • People
  • Want
  • Society

• I think this is a scary thing [hacking] that does have to be taken out of a partisan context. And one of the best pieces of news this morning is a joint statement, Senator [Chuck] Schumer, Senator [Harry] Reid for the Democrats,John McCain and Lindsey Graham from the Republicans, saying we have to get to the bottom of this.

  

  E. J. Dionne
  • Thinking
  • Morning
  • Taken

• In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Society
  • Eyes
  • Morning