John Roy Anderson Quotes
We receive all we venture to give. And one of the things I've learned over the years is that giving is everything, and taking is nothing.
Quotes to Explore
-
Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
-
I was a tomboy.
-
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
-
Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
-
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
-
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
-
I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a producer and DJ for the rest of my life. I can totally see myself being in another band in five years, if that's what my heart and soul wants to do, if that's what will make me happy. I'm totally happy to just not DJ anymore.
-
The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.
-
I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.
-
You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
-
Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
-
The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.
-
I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
-
Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.
-
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
-
For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
-
I can be very ordinary looking.
-
I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.
-
Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.
-
That's where I spent of lot of my high-school years -- in the closet. It wasn't too cramped, but you do get really hot.
-
You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship. You squeeze the slender arm which is passed through yours, you venture to take the little gloved hand, you say good night at absurd length in the shadow of the door. It is innocent and very interesting, love trying his wings in a first little flutter.
-
One of the difficulties you run into is that acting and celebrity are so closely intertwined. People make careers out of being charismatic personalities. It's one of those things that people have come to expect from actors. Personalities that don't change from role to role. I don't want it that way.
-
I get out on my bike almost every day. If I can't walk somewhere, I'll bike or skateboard.
-
We receive all we venture to give. And one of the things I've learned over the years is that giving is everything, and taking is nothing.
