Ben Okri Quotes
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Any actor wants their movies and their work to be seen. You don't make a movie or get into this profession for your work not to be seen and just to show them to your mates at home.
Sam Worthington -
I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
Ulysses S. Grant -
Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.
Oliver North -
The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.
Ada Lovelace -
My eyes are too small, and they're too close together, and I have a pointy nose. But who cares? Who cares?!
Mamie Gummer -
In September 2005, I was three things: the media blogger for 'FishbowlNY,' a maniacal Daily Show fan, and the only person to smuggle a tape recorder and camera into a big Magazine Publishers of America event featuring Jon Stewart interviewing five hotshot magazine editors in an unbelievable bloodbath.
Rachel Sklar
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In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
Warren Spector -
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
Malcolm Forbes -
I'd be resentful if shareholders who don't know the business tried to tell me what to do.
S. Truett Cathy -
I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.
Joanne Rowling -
Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.
Irena Sendler
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Nicht durch Reden und Majoritätsbeschlüsse werden die großen Fragen der Zeit entschieden - daß ist der große Fehler von 1848 und 1849 gewesen - sondern durch Eisen und Blut.
Otto von Bismarck -
It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.
Orson Scott Card -
Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.
Otto Weininger -
I don't let gossip about my alleged affairs with Abhishek (Bachchan) or Govinda bother me anymore. People have even married me off to Karan Johar! The rumours about Govinda did make me furious. I felt sorry for Sunitaji. As far as Abhishek goes, I’m not dating him. I have no time for dates.
Rani Mukerji -
Passive resistance and boycotting are now prominent features of every great national movement.
Benjamin Tucker -
On the whole, I don't have any friends. Friends come and go; I've lost my trust factor. I believe I have people who think they're my friend. And I believe that there are people probably in their heart who are friends toward me or are friends to me. But they're not my friends, because what I learned is that fear is stronger than love.
Tupac Shakur
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I write while listening to music, mostly because the world beyond my headphones is too chaotic.
Dean Bakopoulos -
The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression, and we assert that the force which instituted the repression and maintains it is perceived as resistance during the work of analysis.
Sigmund Freud -
Life is everything and nothing all at once.
Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins -
We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.
Bob Goff -
You cannot come to a Nigerian restaurant without having pepper soup.
Ben Okri