Andrew Carnegie Quotes
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Quotes to Explore
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.
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You just remember back when you were watching as a kid and going, 'Man, Sting's so cool,' and now I'm wrestling the guy. It's breathtaking.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
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I just think with acting, there's not a time limit on it.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Why we should work? So without a healthy environment of this Earth, no matter how much money you make, no matter how wonderful you are, you have a bad disaster.
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When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
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To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.
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It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.
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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
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My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.
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So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.
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In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss.
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I'm hoping I can evade a type and go for roles based on what I consider plausible and what I consider good.
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I met a lot of hackers, and some of them were very arrogant. They thought I was stupid because I couldn't follow what they were talking about. But then I met this great guy whom companies hire to find their security holes, and he was very good about explaining so I could understand.
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I am so organized that it's dysfunctional. Everything has a place. I am a very visual person, so my environment is important to me. If my environment is messy, I can't think clearly. I don't like clutter. A clean desk is a clean mind for me.
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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
