Best Quotes Around the World

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

Regardless of what our national credit rating is, people will always want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, fuel for their cars, and clothes on their backs.

I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ‚em out, I pick the round.

Don’t get old, if you can avoid it.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn’t do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods – that’s where I’m really happy.

So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

I am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

Seeing is not always believing.

The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing.

We moralize among ruins.

Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think – even the activists – that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: ‚Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn’t stop the war so what’s the use of doing it again?‘

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

A development deal is where they’re giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they’ll put an album out.

The only film I’ve enjoyed starring a wrestler was Mickey Rourke in ‚The Wrestler.‘

When digital technology started becoming the norm, you’ve got 50, 60, 70 years of recordings on tapes that are just deteriorating. Like, a two-inch reel of recording tape won’t last forever. It dissolves. It will disappear.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

For a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‚Here I am, read me.‘ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

The self is hateful.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

We can no longer save the world by playing by the rules.

I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.

You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can’t be English American. Why not?

I don’t really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

What I tell my kids is, ‚I’m preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.‘

We are not at war against Islam.

I think that more flow of information, the ability to stay connected to more people makes people more effective as people. And I mean, that’s true socially. It makes you have more fun, right. It feels better to be more connected to all these people. You have a richer life.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.