Junkies Famous Quotes & Sayings

If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power. — Friedrich Nietzsche

This needs to work on that level, but it has the additional strain of it's going to be profoundly scrutinized by political junkies from the right and the left who will pick apart every little thing. We are inherently dramatizing Hillary Rodham, or Hillary Clinton, who's a very famous figure. There's a lot of biographies about her, but there's also elements that are private moments, that are dramatized with an arc, and we have to take creative license. Everything is sort of a cost-benefit. — James Ponsoldt

By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it. — Florence Nightingale

No one could ever argue with me about people in show business being kind of nice. — Desi Arnaz

He was glorious in his perfection, like a dark angel. — Natasha Boyd

I don't want to be a director. I want to direct. There's a difference. — Marty Feldman

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end. — Albert Schweitzer

Part of the creative journey for me was not to come up the conventional route. I didn't go through drama school. I chose not to. I came from a very working-class area, a child of Nigerian immigrants. — DeObia Oparei

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all. — Esperanza Spalding

As an exercise of the reasoning faculties, pure mathematics is an admirable exercise, because it consists of reasoning alone and does not encumber the student with any exercise of judgment. — Richard Whately

Logic, according to the conception here formed of it, has no concern with the nature of the act of judging or believing; the consideration of that act, as a phenomenon of the mind, belongs to another science. Philosophers, however, from Descartes downward, and especially from the era of Leibnitz and Locke, have by no means observed this distinction; and would have treated with great disrespect any attempt to analyze the import of Propositions, unless founded on an analysis of the act of Judgment. — John Stuart Mill

Theo, Baleigh, and Lucas were good-looking people, and good-looking people hardly ever went unnoticed. — J.A. George

Have a heart which does not trample down simplicity and humility. — Angelica Hopes