Hemel En Quotes & Sayings

I grew up in a house with a mother who was a teacher and a Freedom Rider - very left-wing Democrats living in a heterogeneous working-class neighborhood. I picked up a lot of those values there, and I brought them with me when I showed up in Hollywood. — Ben Affleck

It's about time that people forget that image of strip clubs as seedy places ... Rather, today's clubs are capital-intensive female-empowerment zones ... — Demi Moore

Any Beatles song is perfect. It gets to you right away. — Tod Machover

If music serves to convey feelings through the interaction of physical gestures and sound, the musician needs his brain state to match the emotional state he is trying to express. Although the studies haven't been performed yet, I'm willing to bet that when B.B. King is playing the blues and when he is feeling the blues, the neural signatures are very similar. (Of course there will be differences, too, and part of the scientific hurdle will be subtracting out the processes involved in issuing motor commands and listening to music, versus just sitting on a chair, head in hands, and feeling down.) And as listeners, there is every reason to believe that some of our brain states will match those of the musicians we are listening to. — Daniel J. Levitin

The human being first put values into things, in order to preserve itself - it created a meaning for things, a human's meaning! Therefore it calls itself 'human' - that is: the evaluator. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If you took a cracked pot and you cracked that cracked pot, you'd be approaching the level of cracked pottery we are talking about here. — Rachel Maddow

It is all around us, hidden in plain sight. It is walking our streets, supplying shops and supermarkets, working in fields, factories or nail bars, trapped in brothels or cowering behind the curtains in an ordinary street: slavery. — Theresa May

I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again. I'm an Alan Simpson Republican. — Alan K. Simpson

There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be.
Someone had stolen a book. — Terry Pratchett

Look within, find strength for thy soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane. — Muriel Rukeyser

There is a deity within us who breathes that divine fire by which we are animated. — Ovid

The intersection of psychology and business is typically seen as being as congested, stressful, and emotionally barren as a peak commute traffic day on the L.A. freeways. But, thankfully, we live in an era in which neuroscientists are teaching us about the malleability of our brain and the emotionally contagious nature of our workplaces. — Chip Conley

The absurd and legendary devil is the enigma of the Church. — L. Frank Baum

You look for stars. You look for the makeup of artists who can have long lasting careers and who could be headliners. — Clive Davis