Uma Thurman Quotes

I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you're saying someone else's words and relaying the story of someone else's life, it's not you.

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• Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Life
  • Money
  • Fire

• The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Education
  • Information

• I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Life
  • Wonderful
  • Composer

• I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Myself

• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Life
  • Work
  • Stop

• I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I think there's a culture in Rajasthan Royals that has been there before I got here, so I've come into it. I've enjoyed being part of it and embraced it. They are quite clear about the fact that bottom lines are important, and there is a certain limit on what you can spend.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Important
  • Think
  • Culture

• When you write and direct your own film, you basically know exactly what you want. Or you hope to. For the studio, it actually can make life a little easier, because if you have a bunch of questions, they only need to call one person.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Questions

• I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• I think, for every phase of your life, you take something out of it, you learn from it, you grow from it. You just have to try to take what you can from it and then move on to the next phase of your life to be better.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Better

• If I've learned anything in my career, it's that nothing worthwhile in life comes easy. That's just the way it is.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Life
  • Career
  • Easy

• It can literally change someone's life; it's very positive for young teenagers to get into cosplay if they do it with their friends or with supervision from their parents - it can really foster their social skills.

  

  Yaya Han
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Parents

• I don't take myself seriously in the slightest, so it does amaze me that I've ended up being in all these very dark, sinister plays. But I love it because, touch wood, I'm lucky enough not to have that level of darkness in my life.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Life
  • Lucky
  • Take

• I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Life
  • Long
  • Future

• Kids will come into my boxing gym with no discipline, and then you teach them how to focus and love what they're doing, which then travels outside into their home and work life.

  

  Tamer Hassan
  • Life
  • Home
  • Kids

• My life is short. I can't listen to banality.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • Short
  • Life Is Short

• I live life what I consider to be normal.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Life
  • Live
  • Live Life

• I'm inspired by the words: 'electrifying', 'epic', 'minimalistic', 'transcendent', 'timeless' and 'rock n' roll.'

  

  Janelle Monae
  • Words
  • Rock
  • Inspired

• Life is short, and time just flies by, so I love those moments when we're all sitting around the table together laughing and joking.

  

  Ainsley Earhardt
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Laughing

• I know I'm in England because this morning, my stomach got up two hours before I did and had a cup of tea! I've had so much tea, I slosh when I walk! You have to drink tea - I've tasted the coffee!

  

  Bob Hope
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Coffee

• Last week in the Homeland Security Committee, Republicans were against port security; and today, one week after Democrats unveiled our Real Security Agenda, they're for it.

  

  Jim Clyburn
  • Real
  • Today

• I'm sorry I'm crying again on national television.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Television
  • Sorry
  • Crying

• I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you're saying someone else's words and relaying the story of someone else's life, it's not you.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Life
  • Words