Leah Remini Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
-
The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.
-
The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
-
Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
-
No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
-
I couldn't get a date, but I couldn't be quite sure how unattractive I'd become. I was still friendly; I made jokes, and in my mind, if I saw a woman smiling at me... I still had a chance. I did not.
-
We all have the archetype inside us of the enlightened being.
-
Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.
-
As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we could stop having the race conversation so that we can get women further on. You know, a female president now that we have an African American president. Maybe we can get an Asian female, a gay person?
-
Though blessed with many able administrators, the British found India just too large and diverse to handle. Many of their decisions stoked Hindu-Muslim tensions, imposing sharp new religious-political identities on Indians.
-
I am in love with all the characters I have played. And it is impossible to choose the best.
-
At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive.
-
I was filled with hate and anger. But during my trial, something decisive happened: Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and it was an unbelievable feeling to know that there is someone fighting for you on the outside. Amnesty's 'soft' approach made me seriously consider alternatives to revenge.
-
Viola Davis is incredible - she's kind of the biggest career-wise inspiration for me. Brilliant actor, so intelligent, so strong. The path that she's made is incredible.
-
If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.
-
If we judge by wealth and power, our times are the best of times; if the times have made us willing to judge by wealth and power, they are the worst of times.
-
Some people say I was a thug and a gangster; other people remember me as a poet and a born leader. But I'm saying to you, measure a man by his actions fully, through his whole life, from the beginning to the end.
-
So in the end when one is doing philosophy one gets to the point where one would like just to emit an inarticulate sound.
-
Part of the desire to live in a post-racial world includes the desire not to have to talk about racism, which includes a false perception that if you are talking about race, then you're perpetuating the notion of race. I reject that.
-
It would be simpler going to an Olympic Games knowing you had to nail one trick that you've done a hundred times, and if you do it, you'll win. Or if you're a swimmer, if you swim a certain time, you will win. In BMX, there are no guarantees.
-
I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
-
Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians.
-
If you don't care about somebody, you don't even bother to fight with them.
