Louis Zamperini Quotes

I was a rotten kid. My excitement came from seeing what I could get away with.

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• A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Hero
  • Brave

• There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Play
  • Actor
  • Old

• Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.

  

  Laura Robson
  • Better
  • Playing
  • Getting

• Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Me
  • Taught
  • Cautious

• I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Growing

• I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Different
  • Style
  • Sound

• I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned at least the right to relax.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Career
  • Movies
  • Relax

• The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Long
  • Experience

• One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Music
  • Art
  • Band

• I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Believe
  • Reality
  • Rich

• Obviously, there's more to aesthetic appearance than just race, but that is going to be the first thing that someone notices when they look at a picture.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Picture
  • Look
  • Race

• I'm at the right age to work with dead people, but you have to be smart to be a CSI.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Work
  • Age

• 'There’s nothing to fear, Lebannen,' he said gently, mockingly. 'They were only the dead.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Fear

• So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war,There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.

  

  Walter Scott
  • War

• The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has ever lived - Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Air

• Without interest (hers not the type to wonder why!) but with perfect efficiently, Miss Lemon had fulfilled her task.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Why
  • Perfect
  • Wonder

• He can neither read nor write and in him already there broods a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • History
  • Father
  • Present

• A lot of publishers have close relationships with people in power. So the press, which used to speak truth to power, doesn't. The big result of that has been the erosion of trust.

  

  Craig Newmark
  • People
  • Power
  • Truth

• Be patient, calm, compassionate. Know that existence is fleeting.

  

  Ettore Sottsass
  • Existence
  • Calm
  • Patient

• I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Home
  • Start
  • Talking

• I think I'm going to give my baby her first food on Thanksgiving, make her some organic sweet potato. I'm very excited! It's going to be a big day and my husband is in charge of the turkey - he's the chef of the family!

  

  Lily Aldridge
  • Family
  • Food
  • Husband

• Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Way
  • Morning
  • Chef

• I was a rotten kid. My excitement came from seeing what I could get away with.

  

  Louis Zamperini