I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.
For example, in your house, you have the heater on the ground itself. Here, it's the gravity. No matter where you are, that's where the gravity is coming from. It's almost like a carpet that you put down. If you're on the other side, it doesn't matter to us because we're still walking on the ground. Actually, at the beginning of the film [Valerian], we see when they install the gravity system.
Where we are in politics is running down whatever doesn't agree with you.
Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William. It if is at all convenient, die before you're fifty. It my take a bit of doing. But I advise this is simply because there is no telling when another Helen Loomis might be born. It would be dreadful, wouldn't it, if you lived on to be very very old and some afternoon in 1999 walked down Main street and saw me standing there, aged twenty-one, and the whole thing out of balance again?
Being from a country like Iran which unfortunately right now is like the worst country to be from in America, you still want to be an American. When you actually sit down and talk to people, you just realize people are people, you just make friendships.
The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally.
Don't expect anything from anybody, work hard, put your head down, be good at what you do and good stuff will happen.
some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.
Just as I lay back, she sat up. I sat up, and she flopped back down. Awkward. That was my every move when it came to her. Now we were both lying down, staring up at the blue sky.
Just as a tree, though cut down, sprouts up again if its roots remain uncut and firm, even so, until the craving that lies dormant is rooted out, suffering springs up again and again.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
If we fail to see that there are powers that cause people to be bowed down in bondage, we are going to fight the wrong battle.
It's always fun to walk down the street with or behind a really beautiful woman, for no reason other than to see how the world reacts to them.
The infamy of n - - is - it's a word that has been used to terrorize people, to put people down. But it has also been used in other ways. It's also been used as a way of putting a mirror up to racism.
I could never settle down into a reggae band, that's too bizarre.
Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.
I will not fail, I will not disappoint you, I will not let you down.
When I breathe down my nose to say how do you do to a horse, it can hear that breath at anything up to twenty yards, for horses have the most acute sense of hearing.
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. Carry it by the comfortable handles of gratitude for what's positive and that it is not worse, rather than the uncomfortable edges of bitterness for the negatives and that it is not better.
I want to show my range before I fall into any typecasting. I've turned down a lot of things trying to wait. But at the end of my career, whether that be tomorrow or 40 years from now, I would like to look back and be able to say, 'Ah, I never fell into any gimmicks.