Annelien Dings Quotes & Sayings

Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people; greatness is being accepted by the people. — Mike Tyson

The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you. — Gary Zukav

I'm a self-confessed genre nerd. I'm a very serious actor, but a genre nerd, all the same. — Penelope Mitchell

Grief will go
it always does
but not before it forces us to do these absurd things, and hurt ourselves, and bring on suffering, because grief, that parasite, above all else does not want to die, and only in these terrible moments it creates can it feel itself thrashing back to life. — Andrew Sean Greer

I actually don't want a throne at all, because I don't view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans. — Lady Gaga

I just love Jamie Foxx! — Nancy O'Dell

I started a nonprofit called The Pegasus Fund, and we take top-performing students from underserved communities, and we commit to sending them for three summers to a nonacademic, holistic summer camp as a means to help them acclimate socially, geographically, spiritually to pilot secondary schools that they hope to attend. — Jonathan Tucker

Time slips. Days pass. Years fade. Life ends. And what we came to do on earth must be done while there is time! — Milan Jed

Make the right decisions in life and you'll never have to worry about saving $3 a day on lattes. — Ramit Sethi

I claim that the fact that we are strongly encouraged to identify with characters for whom death is not a significant creative possibly has real costs. We the audience, and individual you over there and me right here, lose any sense of eschatology, thus of teleology, and live in a moment that is, paradoxically, both emptied of intrinsic meaning or end and quite literally ETERNAL. If we're the only animals who know in advance we're going to die, we're also probably the only animals who would submit so cheerfully to the sustained denial of this undeniable and very important truth. The danger is that, as entertainment's denials of the truth get even more effective and pervasive and seductive, we will eventually forget what they're denials OF. This is scary. Because it seems transparent to me that, if we forget how to die, we're going to forget how to live. — David Foster Wallace

In terms of big spectacle, I thought 'Captain America 2' was phenomenal. I really loved that movie, and it was a great movie as a stand-alone. — Joe Carnahan

Norman Cousins, endeavoring in his essay Modern Man Is Obsolete to express the deepest feelings of intelligent people at that staggering historical moment, wrote not about how to protect one's self from atomic radiation, or how to meet political problems, or the tragedy of man's self-destruction. Instead his editorial was a meditation on loneliness. "All man's history," he proclaimed, "is an endeavor to shatter his loneliness. — Rollo May

I've reached a place with my work where I'm ready to concentrate more on life. — Dana Delany