Lopes Quotes & Sayings

It's not like I turn off Marilyn Manson and I'm an everyday guy who goes and has another job and doesn't think about any of this stuff. Marilyn Manson is the most real thing that can come from me. — Marilyn Manson

[I]t is no doubt true that our image of what a messiah might look like may keep us from recognizing the real thing when it stands before us. Could it be that we have embellished the long-awaited event with so many aggadic flourishes that we can no longer recognize the reality when it happens? Could our overly literal reading of our sages' poetic descriptions have led us to overlook completely the miracle as it happened?
One of the dangers of taking the statements and speculations of our sages as literal truth - when they were not meant as such - is the distortion of our expectations. — Nathan Lopes Cardozo

We seldom stop to think - and we certainly should do so more often - that in taking the words of our sages as a description of mere fact, we may miss the deeper meanings which they meant to convey. As a rule, aggadah should not be taken literally; rather, it must be interpreted with the understanding that a higher truth is being alluded to - a truth that is beyond historical perspective, philological expression, or the dimensions of scientific observations. Agaddah speaks to that part of us that understands but cannot articulate what it understands. It allows us to go beyond the realms of the definable, perceivable, and demonstrable. In this sense, aggadah is a form of religious metaphor, a mirror that enables us to form mental images of the indescribable. — Nathan Lopes Cardozo

This loving greeting
is from the man who wants to share,
my life, my love, my everything
because nothing else compares. — Susan Smith

As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions. — Lavrenti Lopes

Take advantage of the opportunities you have during your program. It's not every day that you get to live in Florida with incredible people and make magic daily. During the last two months of my program, Sara and I made sure we conquered as much on our bucket list as possible. If you make a bucket list, use it. Don't regret not doing something when you have the chance. — Sara Lopes

I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that. — Angelina Jolie

The roles for South Asians may have increased by a decent number but there has been a negligible change in the quality of these roles. We still have to fight stereotypes. Fortunately, I've had the priviledge of working with people who look beyond the color of your skin. — Lavrenti Lopes

Jews have been an ever-dying people that never died. They have experienced a continuous resurrection, like the dry bones that Ezekiel saw in the valley. This has become the sine qua non of every Jew. It is the mystery of the hidden miracle of survival in the face of overwhelming destruction. Our refusal to surrender has turned our story into one long, unending Purim tale. — Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Even if dogma has a purpose, it can never function as a substitute for faith, only as a dry aspect of it. — Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Nothing could be more natural to me than writing music. — Lisa Lopes

A long-faced, proud-shouldered woman with deep olive skin snorts at the demotion. Her gaze is peculiarly shrewd for a Blue. Bald, like the rest, with digital azure tattoos swirling not only along crown and temples, but over hands and neck. Sevro lopes back to me. "Sevro, stop pissing around." "I like being big." "I'm still bigger." He tries flipping me the crux in his suit, but the mechanical fingers aren't so agile. I — Pierce Brown

Energy never dies.
It just transforms. — Lisa Lopes

Mumbai is home, so there's no comparison. But then again, New York's a lot like Mumbai, which is why I choose to live there. It's fast, crowded (in a good way), the people are friendly and it's full of color and race, like Mumbai. Unfortunately, the traffic's also just as bad. — Lavrenti Lopes

I crushed on the most popular guy in school! I saw him at a concert and I shouted out, Is that Shane Lopes? You were the most popular guy in my class, but you never wanted to go out with me. Instead it was Amanda Wayne. What are you thinking now? — Katy Perry

If I don't love myself, I won't survive. — Lisa Lopes

Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim. — Lavrenti Lopes

Everybody knows that. The missing step is always the next. — Oscar Lopes

There's beauty in pain, and everyone experiences it - and it's a lesson. — Wynter Gordon

Every time I got drunk, this girl named Nikki would show up. When I got drunk, I was just a different person. This is a totally different person than Lisa. When these two started to battle it out, I had to create a third person to come in and straighten the two of them out. Nina, my evil twin who came from within, who I blame my sins on. (satanic alter) All the problems I did have stemmed from what I was doing - I was creating all these different personalities. — Lisa Lopes

It's a thrill to be a fan amongst fans. — Nathan Fillion

I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls. — Lavrenti Lopes

I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft. — Lavrenti Lopes

A struggle is a preparation for what is yet to come.
-Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes
— Brenda "Saw Jesus+" Calloway-Miller

I was just a tattletale for small minds back home. — Peter Watts

Weather in towns is like a skylark in a counting-house-out of place and in the way. — Jerome K. Jerome

Once your past no longer has the power to define you, your future is, quite literally, yours for the taking. Every single beautiful thing you could possibly want or imagine will be yours. — Dan Pearce

I see the invisible spirits, where demons still find it livable. I need a hug to hold my soul inside my body. — Lisa Lopes

Doubt is a necessary precondition tomeaningful action. Fear is the great mover in the end. — Donald Barthelme

Dark Fae are evil. They do evil things to each other, but there is an unspoken rule that you never harm family."
She held him tighter, wishing she could take away his pain with a hug. "Families hurt each other all the time. — Donna Grant

Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right. — Steve Jobs

I think I was 8 or 9 when I did my first play. It was at a community level, but that's when I knew that this is what I loved doing. — Lavrenti Lopes