Alexander Downer Quotes

Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister.

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• My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Love
  • Know

• One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Life
  • School
  • Home

• The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • May
  • Environment
  • Year

• If you're feeling blue, lock yourself in a room, stand in front of a mirror, and dance - and laugh at yourself and be sexy. Dance the silliest and ugliest you've ever danced. Make fun of yourself and try to recover your sense of humor.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Fun
  • Feeling
  • Dance

• People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People
  • World
  • Character

• If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Know
  • Harmony

• There's no how-to guide for how to change the world. But it's easy to get hung up by misconceptions about what it takes to make an impact.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • World
  • Change

• Customers often value a good more when its price goes up. One reason may be its signaling value. An expensive handcrafted mechanical watch may tell time no more accurately than a cheap quartz model; but, because few people can afford one, buying it signals that the owner is rich.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I am young enough to try my hands at all kinds of cinema.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Young
  • Cinema

• I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for you, and disregard everything else about their background.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better than fiction, I think.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Why
  • Think
  • Better

• Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Long
  • Grief

• People always get confused. They talk about coaches. The reality is, these coaches and managers that everybody thinks are in so much control, they work for us. They're our employees.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • People
  • Work
  • Reality

• I was interning at a record label - OK, cool. I'm gonna do what my mom did, you know, work her way up in the music industry, the business side of things. I was comfortable with that. That was what I wanted to do. And then just suddenly I am thrown from that. It was super insane.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Up
  • Work
  • Music

• If you look at the world with parted lips and a pure heart, and will the good, won't that make a true and beautiful poem? One's heart tells one that it will; and one's heart is wrong. There is no direct road to Parnassus.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • World
  • Good
  • Heart

• It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation of the Midas-hand, whose cursed touch turns everything to the brutal service of Mammon.

  

  Alexander Berkman
  • House
  • Hand
  • Environment

• Combine general relativity and quantum theory into a single theory that can claim to be the complete theory of nature. This is called the problem of quantum gravity.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • Nature
  • Single

• For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Sympathy
  • Intuition

• What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual, and that when the naturally better element controls the worse then the man is said to be "master of himself", as a term of praise. But when - as a result of bad upbringing or bad company one s better element is overpowered by the numerical superiority of one s worse impulses, then one is criticized for not being master of oneself and for lack of self control.

  

  Plato
  • Character
  • I Think
  • Result

• If I look at the message I'm portraying, I think it definitely is be who you are, but be your best you.

  

  Kim Kardashian

• The most important thing to remember is that the composer is a senior partner. You cannot force a subject on a composer if it doesn't inspire him. He has to take the lead, you are an enabler, and you are creating the enabling conditions under which he can write great music. Your words are secondary. Many librettists in opera collaborations in the past have forgotten this, or not known it, or refuse to accept it and tried to get out in front of the creative process and it just doesn't work that way.

  

  Terry Teachout
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Remember

• Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal to despair. We have not the right to despair, and, finally, we have not the reason to despair

  

  Richard John Neuhaus
  • Reason
  • Christian
  • Matter

• If there is a State, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery; the State without slavery is unthinkable - and this is why we are the enemies of the State.

  

  Mikhail Bakunin
  • Enemy
  • Slavery
  • Results

• Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister.

  

  Alexander Downer