Alexander Siddig Quotes

For me, it's painful to make a movie. It's not my normal rhythm.

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• There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.

  

  Sam Reed
  • People
  • Think
  • Party

• I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Interesting
  • Taken
  • Regret

• Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Live
  • Soul
  • Man

• I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.

  

  Imelda May
  • Live
  • Art
  • College

• I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Black

• We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Need
  • Musicians

• I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Writing
  • Attention
  • Explore

• The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Long
  • Law
  • Dress

• GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Up
  • World
  • Power

• I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Want
  • Wisdom
  • Always

• It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

  

  Manly Hall
  • Chaos
  • Step
  • Boredom

• A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Know
  • Enjoy
  • Fans

• I'll work out with my trainer twice a week, and I'll do some Power Pilates and might throw in some yoga. I love to row also. The main thing for me is just to move every single day for 30 minutes to an hour.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Work
  • Love
  • Power

• Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • City
  • Place
  • Mental

• Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.

  

  Zendaya
  • Care
  • Cold
  • Warm

• Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Age
  • Generation
  • Own

• Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Value
  • Like
  • Proverbs

• There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Women
  • Number
  • Mechanical

• Bespoke tailoring: yes! I found this one pair of pants - they're Canali - and brought them into a tailor and said, 'Clone these, dammit.' They just do all the right things. I've got eight pairs in different colors and I never have to think about pants again. The only look otherwise that suits me is, like, the Professor from 'Gilligan's Island.'

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Different

• In my day, at 12 years old, which was 38 years ago, we worked out in summer months for two and a half hours. Today someone in that age group might work out for four hours, two hours in the morning and two at night.

  Mark Spitz
  • Work
  • Age
  • Today

• It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Year

• I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Experience
  • Theater
  • Cinema

• For 'X-Men' I was lifting a lot of weights. I actually lost a lot of mass when I quit 'X-Men' because I was working out so much and very muscular and strong.

  

  Jennifer Lawrence
  • Men
  • Strong
  • Lost

• For me, it's painful to make a movie. It's not my normal rhythm.

  

  Alexander Siddig
  • Movie