Best Quotes Around the World

I’ve never professed to be anything but an average student.

I’m very low-key. I don’t really blend in, so it’s difficult to go out in public. I like to do things that are kind of quiet, whether it’s a dinner at my house or a restaurant, or a movie night at home.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.

Because I’m not in a record deal, I don’t have to operate in an album format.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how that added up.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Oftentimes, when we think of 3D, we think of things coming out of the screen, but actually, you’ve got this zero, this negative space, what they call the negative space, which is the scene, what’s being filmed in the positive space of the audience. As you can have things come out, you can have all of this depth.

I’m a Christian by choice.

I think there’s more women that watch me than men, but I don’t look at myself as just a minister to women. My ministry began that way, but I really feel like the Word of God is for everybody.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality – they don’t feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.

I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.

Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

The Tea Party movement itself is maybe 15, 20 percent of the electorate. It’s relatively affluent, white, nativist. You know, it has rather traditional nativist streaks to it. But what is much more important, I think, is the – is its outrage.

Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don’t know the plot. They don’t know their own individual plot… they don’t know what’s going to happen to them.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

The soul is healed by being with children.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

I would get out of school and go straight to my computer to create beats.

I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.

Factoring in millions of people when I’m writing a song is not a good idea. I don’t ever do it.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

When you go to your local police officer, your police chief in the town you live in, big or small, he will tell you the vast majority of the weapons recovered at a crime scene are either stolen weapons, and/or they have been ‚lost‘ or stolen.

The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.

I could have spent eight years doing anything, and at some level, it would have been fine. I could have focused on flowers. I could have focused on decor. I could have focused on entertainment. Because any First Lady, rightfully, gets to define her role. There’s no legislative authority; you’re not elected. And that’s a wonderful gift of freedom.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation – and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

My father gave me some advice when I was very young – whatever someone tells you in the future, don’t forget Pele is the best.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‚evil.‘ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

We’re always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don’t understand the conclusions. After we’ve checked them enough, we’re okay.

I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We’re African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

I’m a singer, a writer and an actress – when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

I’m sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain’t me.

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?