Leroy Hood Quotes

In the end, what counts is what you do.

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• My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Up
  • Work
  • Thoughts

• Radio is for driving.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Driving
  • Radio

• It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Want
  • Actor
  • Existence

• We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.

  

  J.P. Rangaswami
  • Information
  • Farmers
  • Were

• It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Job
  • Child
  • Speak

• I don't remember feeling love.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Love
  • Remember
  • Feeling

• Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Today
  • Energy
  • Youth

• Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Live
  • Science
  • Earth

• We took Infosys public. That was a nonstop three-week global roadshow.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Public
  • Global
  • Took

• I could have coached better.

  

  Dan Devine
  • Better
  • Could
  • Coached

• Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Important
  • Think
  • Comedy

• Life is so much easier when I allow myself to be myself and go with the flow. Whatever that looks like on a given day. If I can get quiet enough to truly check-in with myself, I usually end up on the right track.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Life
  • Up
  • Day

• I remember my first visit with my guru. He had shown that he read my mind. So I looked at the grass and I thought, 'My god, he's going to know all the things I don't want people to know.' I was really embarrassed. Then I looked up and he was looking directly at me with unconditional love.

  

  Ram Dass
  • People
  • Mind
  • Remember

• I started, actually, as an analyst on African affairs, mainly on Al Jazeera. I remember the first few series were about Saudi students, and the negotiations between the government and the Sudanese rebels in the south. And then, slowly, I was speaking about Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and a few other places.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Remember
  • Government
  • First

• Modi may be rich in politics but is poor at heart.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Heart
  • May
  • Politics

• I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Think
  • Try
  • Fearless

• An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Girl
  • Surprise
  • Engagement

• Being a father can 'unreason' your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun and insights. It's sad that children's open-eyed wonder and sense of play begin to fade as they approach adolescence. One grand function of fathering is to keep the fading to a minimum.

  

  Clyde Edgerton
  • Children
  • Fun
  • Father

• Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Authority
  • Understood
  • Posthumous

• I don't study films particularly. I plan to direct, but I'm not watching film - I watch the entire film to see how the story goes, but I don't say, 'Oh, so he does a slow pan here, or he pulls here, watch the crane shot, or look at the composition,' because it's got to be my eye.

  

  James Cromwell
  • Study

• The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California.

  John Moody
  • Small
  • Gold
  • California

• The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Past
  • Philosopher
  • Curious

• In the end, what counts is what you do.

  

  Leroy Hood