Alaina Huffman Quotes
I have my granddad's record collection, which I treasure, and my father's - Rolling Stones to Sidney Bechet.
Quotes to Explore
-
How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.
-
No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
-
I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
-
The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy.
-
I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.
-
I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
-
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
-
There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
-
I don't want to come off as one of those artists that's not down to earth and real.
-
What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
-
I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
-
I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
-
A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
-
When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
-
We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
-
I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
-
It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
-
Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
-
I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist; film was not.
-
Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
-
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
-
Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.
-
I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.
-
I have my granddad's record collection, which I treasure, and my father's - Rolling Stones to Sidney Bechet.
