Kaaaylaa Quotes & Sayings

"What can I offer you that will make you happier about how you should feel about who Angelina Jolie is?" I think that's a very strange desire to know those things. And yet I have it, with musicians in particular. I'm desperate to know what Micah P. Hinson is like or Julian Casablancas. Philip Seymour Hoffman made me feel like that. — Angelina Jolie

Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. Lust is our way of life. Envy is just a nudge towards another sale. Even in our relationships we consume each other, each of us looking for what we can get out of the other. Our appetites are often satisfied at the expense of those around us. In a dog-eat-dog world we lose part of our humanity. — Jon Foreman

In the West the wise are usually thought of as leaders. In the East, the wise are very often though of as followers. — Frederick Lenz

Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience. — Damon Lindelof

I'm not Mr. Nice Guy, I'm a tough cookie — Thomas Muster

Religious people should always be wary of the ways in which political power is wielded and skeptical of how economic privileges are distributed. They should also be mindful of how their own traditions have been used for narrow political purposes, and how some religious figures have manipulated the faith to aggrandize their own power. The doctrine of original sin and the idea of a fallen side of human nature apply to people who are religious no less than those who are not. — E.J. Dionne Jr.

I love dancing and practiced ballet for ten years until I realized I wouldn't make it professionally - then I started taking salsa classes. I learned to dance samba in Rio and Salvador when I lived in Brazil. — Leila Janah

Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more. — Franz Kafka

Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance. — William Jennings Bryan

If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all. — Geoffrey S. Fletcher

It was his opinion that a man had to wait until he was dead to know the meaning of God, unless he happened to have known the sea in his youth. — James A. Michener

Acting is a weird profession. It's very disquieting, and at the time it just made me so confused. It's only when you step away from a movie for several weeks or months that you start to put things in perspective. — Jesse Eisenberg

I hope the Vandals had thorns in their sandals — Arthur Guiterman

As love and joy flood our streets today, it is hard to imagine how anyone could deny the full protection of our laws to any of our fellow Americans - but there are those who would. — Hillary Clinton

From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck, drag him a quarter of a million miles out, and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch. — Ed Mitchell