Dan Colen Quotes

I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.

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• When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Hope
  • Energy
  • Light

• Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Difficult

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Time
  • Live
  • Universe

• I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • Want
  • Myself
  • King

• Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Parents
  • Question
  • Teacher

• The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Politics
  • Democrats
  • Corrupt

• I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Freedom

• If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Sleeping
  • Trait

• I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Weakness
  • Haters

• If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Food
  • Ocean
  • Creating

• I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Always
  • More
  • Push

• I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Pretty
  • Explore
  • Loved

• Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • People
  • Change
  • Being

• Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • May
  • City
  • Kind

• My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • Life
  • Home

• A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it's been tested by recession and all manner of challenges - I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • War
  • Future

• Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.

  

  Jack Germond
  • People
  • Time
  • Bible

• Having a strong race lens means you understand racism is threaded through and institutionalized in all of our systems and our very perceptions, threaded through how someone looks at you, treats you, thinks about you and your potential.

  

  Pramila Jayapal
  • Strong
  • Racism

• In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.

  

  Wale
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Nothing

• If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.

  

  Darrell Royal

• Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need. It is a world of increasing dissension and conflict in which a significant contribution is the failure of different ethnic, tribal, religious, or social groups to search for, and agree upon, a common space for harmonious co-existence.

  

  Aga Khan IV
  • World
  • Different
  • Experience

• Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.

  

  Nelson Goodman
  • World
  • Different
  • Truth

• I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.

  

  Dan Colen
  • World
  • Trying
  • High