Antonio Banderas Quotes

I have to recognize that I am agnostic.

Antonio Banderas

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• Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You've got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Country
  • Freedom
  • Respect

• I'm not a trend person. I don't want to look to my right and see somebody in the same thing.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Want
  • Look
  • Same

• The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Time
  • Political
  • Identity

• My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Strange

• I love listening to songs that are from the heart and that touch the heart. So, love is the preferred theme for most of the songs that I sing.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Listening

• There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Fiction
  • Only
  • Nonfiction

• For me, my country comes first. Nothing else matters but my country. I always felt that the best way to express your patriotism is to spread love, and that's all I ever tried to do through my work and my cinema.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Work
  • Country
  • Way

• The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Place
  • Where
  • Blues

• For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • People
  • Health
  • Choices

• Today too, the most important issue in the world is Palestine. If a war breaks out in Iraq, we believe it is due to the provocation of the Zionists. If it happens in Afghanistan, it is because of their provocation. If Sudan is oppressed, it is due to Zionist seduction. We consider all the arrogant, colonialist schemes to be inspired by the Zionists.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Believe
  • Important

• The Chinese say it is better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • Food
  • Chinese
  • Tea

• I cannot anyhow continue to find people agreeable; I respect Mrs. Chamberlayne for doing her hair well, but cannot feel a more tender sentiment. Miss Langley is like any other short girl, with a broad nose and wide mouth, fashionable dress and exposed bosom. Adm. Stanhope is a gentleman-like man, but then his legs are too short and his tail too long.

  

  Jane Austen
  • People
  • Long
  • Girl

• The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

  

  Audre Lorde
  • House

• Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

  

  Claude McKay
  • Men
  • Fighting
  • Wall

• Savage as a lion, timid as a rabbit, crafty as a fox...

  

  Lu Xun
  • Lion
  • Savage

• I love the stage, but it doesn't pay the mortgage.

  

  David Harewood

• As an author on a corporate press, you have a lot less control over the finished product. I figure if I spend a couple years writing something, I want to be able to decide what the cover looks like and how it's going to be presented.

  

  Joe Meno
  • Writing
  • Control
  • Couple

• You can't have Thanksgiving and not just be like, 'All right, where's the football.' It's been branded very, very well. You can't have one without the other at this point.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Football
  • Thanksgiving

• When things are going well, something will go wrong. / When things just can't get any worse, they will. / Anytime things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Wells
  • Difficulty
  • Overlooked

• A leader has to 'appear' consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.

  

  James Callaghan

• If you want to survive in the film industry, it's not about fighting for your visions because that's a given. It's thinking about how much is your vision going to cost, and then, what are the consequences, because you may have $100 million, but the reality is that $100 million needs to make $500 million to be a success.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Success

• Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Children

• Acting is a work in progress for me. I just try to keep my mouth shut and my eyes and ears open, especially with the people I've worked with.

  

  Dennis Farina
  • People
  • Work
  • Eyes

• I have to recognize that I am agnostic.

  

  Antonio Banderas