Barbara Lee Quotes

I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.

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• I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Business
  • City
  • Universe

• Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?

  

  Oren Peli
  • Unknown
  • Scare
  • Shocking

• Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Life
  • Good
  • Today

• Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Propaganda
  • Momentum
  • Masses

• Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • People
  • Nice
  • Makeup

• Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.

  

  Tarja Halonen
  • Power
  • Future
  • Miracle

• GIS, in its digital manifestation of geography, goes beyond just the science. It provides us a framework and a process for applying geography. It brings together observational science and measurement and integrates it with modeling and prediction, analysis, and interpretation so that we can understand things.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Together
  • Science
  • Process

• I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • Life
  • Good
  • Women

• My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Good
  • Music
  • Art

• As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • You
  • Give

• I never thought of a career of as a model, and it was a total surprise for me when I won the contest and became Miss Chelyabinsk. Then I started modelling in Paris.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Career
  • Thought
  • Model

• Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Story

• Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Couple
  • Thing
  • Roles

• Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Problem
  • Students
  • Israel

• But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Beginning
  • Poetry
  • Chance

• It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Democracy
  • Religion

• Oddly enough, Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Great
  • Enough
  • Philosophy

• If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Life
  • World
  • Compassion

• When The Helmet Comes Off

  

  Darnell Dockett
  • Helmet

• All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Up
  • Work
  • Men

• It's never fun having to bulk up for a job on an action film, then lose weight for another role. I don't actually mind working out, but it's the diet: I'm half-French, so I love my food, and boiled chicken breast for breakfast is not my idea of a good meal.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Mind

• All of the action, and the Wild West West fun, crazy, HBO stuff is in there and it's all amazing, but what separates the show Westworld is that it's an existential drama. It's an intellectual nightmare. It is all very much based in reality. A lot of the technologies that we're exploring is stuff that we're working at, right now. All of this is not that far away. It's taking a look at humanity and the state that we're in now and what would happen, if we kept on going the way that we're going and we created this artificial intelligence.

  

  Evan Rachel Wood
  • Action
  • Drama
  • Created

• I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Action
  • Military
  • Terrorism