Albert Schweitzer Quotes

Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.

Albert Schweitzer

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• Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Cool
  • Voice
  • Bold

• The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Find
  • Ignorance
  • News

• I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Yourself

• I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Film
  • Never
  • Budget

• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Best
  • Service
  • Yourself

• I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Life
  • Live
  • Single

• Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Wife

• The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Reason
  • Enemy
  • Grandparents

• When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Find
  • Fish

• 'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'

  

  Sam Simon
  • God
  • Money
  • Thought

• LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Circumstances
  • Shot
  • Off

• I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.

  

  Dan Abrams
  • People
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Writing
  • School
  • Job

• Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Rock
  • New York

• The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Artist
  • Public
  • Educate

• I think I am a travel junkie, and I have never enjoyed anything else in my life more than travelling and going to places.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Life
  • Travel
  • My Life

• If you leave me waiting 'round for hours and then call on me to do something, I need to be able to do it straight away. That's my job, like your job is to do what you do.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Job
  • Me
  • Waiting

• Staying healthy puts good numbers up. If you stay healthy and try to do the things that you can to win ballgames and do what you can for your team, that's all that matters.

  

  Bryce Harper
  • Up
  • Good
  • Team

• I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Real
  • History
  • House

• I owe my success to my two families. If my father hadn't been willing to make sacrifices for me, I would have never won the role on 'Everybody Hates Chris'. I like working with my television family, too. We have a lot of love for each other.

  

  Imani Hakim
  • Family
  • Success
  • Like

• Yes, in the sense that the negative is like the composer’s score. Then, using that musical analogy, the print is the performance. (Paraphrased as 'Film is the score and the print is the performance.')

  

  Ansel Adams

• A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Life
  • Good

• Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Life
  • Deep
  • Profound