Lena Headey Quotes

I'm 40 next year and I'm very well aware that where I am now, it becomes a bit of a wilderness for actresses.

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• The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Man
  • Gay

• What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Power
  • Bad

• I feel super lucky to be living in New York. I love the city, I love the energy. I always loved it. I had pictures of New York in my bedroom when I was young.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Energy
  • Feel
  • Young

• We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Live
  • Society
  • Science

• You can find Chobani in every major supermarket, in club stores, convenience stores and airports. But we're not everywhere yet. We have been struggling with keeping up with demand.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Up
  • You
  • Find

• It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Practice
  • Religion
  • Easy

• There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • People
  • Music
  • Feelings

• I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Problems
  • News
  • Move

• I'm addicted to avocados, and I'll put them with anything, particularly chillies. Can you imagine if they became extinct? That would be like the apocalypse, no?

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • You
  • Like
  • Imagine

• Some people say you have to fight cancer. But it was fighting me. The cure was worse than the disease, and it left me totally exhausted and depressed. I just hid myself away in my daughter-in-law's flat.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Law
  • Myself

• No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

  

  Maimonides
  • Disease
  • Diet
  • Other

• The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Society
  • Free
  • Feel

• I love pain. Love pain.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Love
  • Pain
  • I Love

• While being in the right seat at the right game might create short-term reassurance, I can't get over the idea that really what people feel is that their club is being run by a group of guys who know the history, study the heritage and view Villa as a proud Victorian club in its third century.

  

  Randy Lerner
  • People
  • History
  • Game

• I've lived in New York for thirty years now, but I'm a proud Pittsburgher, and home is home. My family's still in Pittsburgh.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Family
  • Home
  • Proud

• My nerves fell apart before I saw the front this time, the decaying corpses and piercing wire; for a while, they made me harmless, locking me up in order to undertake a special diagnosis of whatever military ability I might still have. The nerves, every last fiber, repugnance, repulsion!

  

  Otto Dix
  • Up
  • Time
  • Military

• In other words, it is my view that the brain is preprogrammed to feel good (i.e., to seek a sense of well-being/gratification). This is what I term the gratification principle. This usually occurs as the result of instinctive salient/relevant acts or what we normatively decide are salient/relevant acts.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Good
  • Words
  • Brain

• Hands promiscuously applied,Round the slight waist, or down the glowing side.

  

  Lord Byron

• The moods of the dark night skies are variously represented like soft black velvet, like the shining black of a scarab beetle, like the patina-ed surface of Indian-inked paper, soft blotting-paper soaked in dark blue ink for forty days, like a black cat's fur shining in moonlight...

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Night
  • Black
  • Dark

• Along the way, I've had different advice from different music producers. I've been told to tone it down, that the quiet parts of my voice are appealing and there's harshness to the loud part of my voice.

  

  Patty Griffin
  • Music
  • Different
  • Advice

• Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

  

  Elizabeth I
  • War
  • Death

• I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education - that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.

  

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
  • Life
  • Believe
  • American

• Netflix and Amazon know when you stop and start a program, whether you wanted the whole thing, all of that.

  

  Rick Smolan
  • Wanted
  • Program
  • Netflix

• I'm 40 next year and I'm very well aware that where I am now, it becomes a bit of a wilderness for actresses.

  

  Lena Headey