Gan De Quotes
Jupiter was very large and bright. Apparently, there was a small reddish star appended to its side. This is called "an alliance."
Quotes to Explore
-
One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
-
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
-
My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
-
Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.
-
It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
-
Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.
-
If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
-
But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
-
I was watching the Danish version of 'The Killing' when I got the audition for 'The Fall,' and I loved it; it was so original. I approached 'The Fall' with that in mind. I'd no problem with the violence - it was very clear from the script how horrifying the crimes were and that had to be shown, without going to extremes.
-
When I work on a movie, I never aim for records, collections or the number one position. I always concentrate on my work and look for ways to improve my acting abilities. I also advise my co-stars not to concentrate on these pretty issues and just focus on acting.
-
We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
-
I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, 'If you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again.' So I'd lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There's a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested.
-
I don't have any stigma attached to my body. When I'm in my own private space, I have very little on.
-
Sometimes, the most daunting thing about performing is making eye contact with your audience, so just look above them and at the corners of the room. Soon, you'll totally forget they're there.
-
If I could make albums quicker, I'd be on a roll wouldn't I? Everything just seems to take so much time. I don't know why. Time... evaporates.
-
Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.
-
The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war, but have not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and less wasteful.
-
Racist people, interestingly, are never as polite as smokers. Have you noticed that? Smokers always go, 'Do you mind if I smoke? Oh, you do? Okay, I'll go outside and have a cigarette.' Racist people never go, 'Do you mind if I'm racist? Oh, I'll go outside … fucking blue people, eh? Coming here, steal our hamsters …'
-
What is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?
-
Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.
-
The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non-violence alone can lead one to pure democracy. Power based on love is thousand times more effective and permanent than power derived from fear of punishment. It is a blasphemy to say non-violence can be practiced only by individuals and never by nations which are composed of individuals. The nearest approach to purest anarchy would be a democracy based on non-violence. A society organized and run on the basis of complete non-violence would be the purest anarchy.
-
The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.
-
If ever you want to get rid of somebody you don't want to talk to, just mention God. They're out of there.
-
Jupiter was very large and bright. Apparently, there was a small reddish star appended to its side. This is called "an alliance."
