Daniel Beaty Quotes
Every action begins with a thought, and if you don't watch what you're thinking, your thoughts will get the best of you.
Quotes to Explore
-
The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
-
There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
-
I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
-
There's no business like show business.
-
It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
-
The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
-
They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
-
There were so many groups that I had in college, but I was always the solo singer. But what made it so unusual back in the day was that I was a black girl playing with all these white musicians, and I was also singing rock music on top of it.
-
Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
-
When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
-
I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
-
Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.
-
I wanted to get that Division I scholarship and play ball and go to school for free, and I was always about getting to that next step... I was always ahead of myself in some way, shape or form, and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being free and having creative agency, so to speak.
-
I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
-
If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.
-
I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
-
There are African-American families around this country - a large, large number of African-American families - that operate out of complete fear that their kids are going to be taken from them and will do anything to prevent that.
-
Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.
-
Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.
-
The editing of a song is largely what makes the song for me and I think that actually if I had started going like 'I want you to burn' it would have pinned that song down to a particular thing and made that song a smaller idea than what it is. By leaving that off it's much more open, broader.
-
People often ask me when there's going to be a Mrs. Zach Braff. It's a confusing question sometimes because many people don't realize that my mother is named Mrs. Zach Braff.
-
I write, and when see a movie in which it's supernatural, some other worlds, or some other aspect to our world that we're not aware of, and [they] don't explain what the rules are, that kind of stuff drives me crazy.
-
Beliefs are the foundation of actions. Those who believed without doubting, he would say, acted without thinking. And those who acted without thinking were enslaved.
-
Every action begins with a thought, and if you don't watch what you're thinking, your thoughts will get the best of you.
