Erol Alkan Quotes

Instinct is the most powerful thing you have, and you have to trust it.

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• When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Day
  • Water
  • Person

• I tell fans who ask me why I'm not doing comedy anymore that I'm a different person. I've grown and I've matured. I've made a transition to where I really want to be.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Different
  • Comedy
  • Person

• My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Sexy
  • Comfort
  • Too Much

• In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Man
  • Mirror

• It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.

  

  Randy West
  • People
  • Work
  • Same

• My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Money
  • Taxes
  • Tax

• People always think actors are really 'out there,' so you wouldn't have me pegged as one, but I knew pretty early on it was what I wanted to do, and I think that's pretty lucky.

  

  Talia Balsam
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Me

• I'm an activist. I'm a proud activist. So I want to be someone who is pro-black and pro-Africa and still be somebody that has positive influence.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Black
  • Proud
  • Positive

• The Dalai Lama is just a temporal leader of Tibet.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Leader
  • Just
  • Dalai Lama

• I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Done
  • Experience
  • Comedy

• But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I had been on Broadway.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Matter
  • Down
  • Broadway

• I think comedy does have that powerful thing that doesn't seem too preachy because you're also making people laugh, so it's really kind of a good tool for messaging.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Good
  • Comedy

• Corruption often exists because there are too many market forces, not too few.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang

• I don't feel embarrassed by any of the music that I like. I think it's all genuinely clever, good music.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Good
  • Music
  • Clever

• Greek myths, early Roman history, is configured around violence against women. And I think we need to get in there, get our hands dirty, face it, and see why and how it was.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Women
  • Why
  • History

• For each person, they live their life and their truth and how it works for them, and that's just kind of how it works for me. I'm not good at doing whatever the other way is - it wouldn't work for me.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It's not something I like but it's the truth.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Truth

• You can be powerful without being loud and aggressive.

  

  Ed Skrein
  • You
  • Powerful
  • Aggressive

• My life motto is basically to lower your standards and expectations so you're never disappointed and never put any trust in anything, and I try to prepare for the day that I wake up, and everyone I know is like, 'LOL JK best long-running practical joke ever', so I've never really let myself freak out or get too excited about anything.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• Modern capitalism seeks to assure us that it operates according to the principles of free creativity, endless development and diversity. It glosses over its other side in order to hide the reality that millions of people are enslaved by an all-powerful and fantastically stable norm of production. We want to reveal this lie.

  

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
  • People
  • Free
  • Reality

• The problem is that I don't think the American people realize how much of our intelligence is actually derived from our partners. If our partners cannot feel or do not trust that our president will not divulge that information to, I mean, goodness gracious, the Russians in this case, then that could create real problems for us going forward.

  

  Andrew Exum
  • Trust
  • President
  • Information

• The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects.

  

  Frank Darabont
  • Powerful
  • Silence
  • Effects

• Instinct is the most powerful thing you have, and you have to trust it.

  

  Erol Alkan
  • Trust
  • Powerful
  • Instinct