Louis D. Brandeis Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
-
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
-
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
-
A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.
-
Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
-
It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
-
It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
-
If we can provide even a few months of early warning for just one pandemic, the benefits will outweigh all the time and energy we're devoting. Imagine preventing health crises, not just responding to them.
-
The only reason I'm ever in character as 'Larry The Cable Guy' is because that's what I'm hired to do. In my movies, obviously they hired 'Larry The Cable Guy' to be 'Larry The Cable Guy.' When I do my shows, I'm 'Larry The Cable Guy.' When I do Jay Leno, it's: 'Please welcome 'Larry The Cable Guy.'
-
Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
-
I love to smoke things; there's usually something always in the pot outside. That smell of something in the smoker just reminds me of home.
-
I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.
-
Just know that as long as your family thinks you're amazing, then you really are amazing.
-
When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your 20s and you decide that music should be challenging and all art should be smart. So you start to think it makes you like high art more to put down things you consider low art. I don't even think things are low art.
-
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
-
Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.
-
The day you decide to pursue your dreams, don't forget that this is a game you don't enter to compete, but to win. And there will always be someone booing you in the stands, and everything you accomplish could be jeered and hissed at. This is a game between two that you have to win for the people who came to watch you be triumphant.
-
The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
-
In New York, a 13-year-old Indian girl came up to me crying, saying to everyone nearby, 'This is where I come from.' It's easy to forget that actors have the ability to instill a sense of self in viewers. That's the greatest compliment.
-
I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.
-
In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do everything related to your craft - and your craft is football. You can be at it from sunup to sundown.
-
Don't put your life on hold so that you can dwell on the unfairness of past hurts.
-
It feels like we're all so familiar now with the traditional three-act structure that, actually, stories that are more complex, more naughty, that allow for disagreement and discussion, are more interesting to us.
-
Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
