Lincoln Steffens Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
-
I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.
-
We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.
-
I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
-
Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
-
I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
-
Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
-
I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.
-
It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.
-
I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything.
-
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-
Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.
-
I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.
-
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
-
I was afraid the other musicians might want to present themselves too much, though I see in the coverage I've received of the album that the musicians got wonderful reviews for their contributions and abilities. I think the four musicians played freely within my limits.
-
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
-
Everyone said how tormented directors can be. I've never enjoyed something so much in my life!
-
China is a society which forbids any flow of the information and freedom of speech. This is on record, so everybody should know this.
-
I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade.
-
The hope of the coming of a new Christian era in our civilization is to my mind a hope for a distant future, a very distant future.
-
I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.
