Best Quotes Around the World

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense. I am just one human being.

People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that’s not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.

We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we’re so dependent on oil, not just for fuel but also plastic. If plastic vanished, there would be total chaos. We have to think quite carefully about using oil and its derivatives, because it’s not going to be around forever.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.

It’s a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they’re almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

I now have two different audiences. There’s the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.

I’ve never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don’t run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Money doesn’t mean anything to me. I’ve made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.

An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

For an author, the nice characters aren’t much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They’re doing it for themselves.

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.

I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

Cause when you’re sequencing a record, you want the listener to stick with it from beginning to end, and in order to do that, you really have to map out the journey from the first song to the last.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn’t mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you’ve forgotten high school.

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited – that has music and rhythm and time.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.

The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe – how to observe – what symptoms indicate improvement – what the reverse – which are of importance – which are of none – which are the evidence of neglect – and of what kind of neglect.

Philanthropy should be voluntary.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

‚Kitchen Confidential‘ wasn’t a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

People ask, ‚Should I call you Sir Hopkins?‘ But I say, ‚No. Call me Tony,‘ because it’s too much of a lift-up.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.

I want to produce the music to a movie that I’m working on, like what Prince did with ‚Purple Rain.‘

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

I’ve spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.

For me, it’s enough that I have the first and last word.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

I cycled when I was at high school, then reconnected with bikes in New York in the late ’70s. It was a good way of getting around the clubs and galleries of the Lower East Side and Soho.