Marcus Sakey Quotes

As the Occupy Movement demonstrated, it's tough to change anything when you're talking about everything.

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• Before I started surfing, I don't even know if I would have dived into the water at night alone. It was still scary.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Night
  • Alone
  • Water

• Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Men
  • Nations
  • Exhausted

• 'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Will
  • Sure
  • Glued

• I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Think
  • Light
  • Me

• Who doesn't love a 'Lifetime' movie? I think that they know their audience so well.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Know

• I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Why

• I find it fascinating to see the fact that women want to buy things that they see on men.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Men
  • Women
  • Want

• You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • People
  • She
  • Career

• I want people to see that I'm a real person, I overreact, I cry, I'm emotional. If I come across as perfect and in control, that wouldn't be who I really am.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • People
  • Real
  • Control

• These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Mind
  • May
  • Knowledge

• Danny DeVito later told me that he knew he wanted me for 'Matilda' the second I walked in the door. I'm not sure if this is true, or if he was just being nice, but I was thrilled when I got it.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • True
  • Nice
  • Thrilled

• Nunca amamos ninguém. Amamos, tão-somente, a ideia que fazemos de alguém. É a um conceito nosso – em suma, é a nós mesmos – que amamos.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Male-female fusion does not create women’s rights. It creates a fusion of rights.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women

• If we had paused to tell the people that we were Marxist-Leninists while we were on Pico Turquino and not yet strong, it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the plains.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Strong

• I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind - an inability to chart a course whichever way the wind blows, whichever way the media encourages the people to go, you follow. If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • People
  • Mind
  • Wind

• Anyone that gets to side four is dumber than I am.

  

  Lou Reed

• To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

  

  Jane Austen

• I think, when I was 25, nobody in the world knew who I was.

  

  Mary Beard
  • World

• We've always had a dark atmosphere to our performances, so it sort of developed along those ways.

  

  Kenny Hickey
  • Dark

• Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Power
  • Society
  • Attributes

• In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa. Such was the way of the world that Dostoevsky depicted in The Brothers Karamazov. The most important thing is to maintain the balance between the constantly moving good and evil. If you lean too much in either direction, it becomes difficult to maintain actual morals. Indeed, balance itself is the good.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Balance
  • Trading
  • Morals

• Working out has always been a way of life for me.

  

  Clarence Clemons
  • Life

• I want to see my family. We all want to get a great shower, get cleaned up and have a great dinner.

  

  Charles Camarda
  • Family
  • Want
  • Dinner

• As the Occupy Movement demonstrated, it's tough to change anything when you're talking about everything.

  

  Marcus Sakey