Rzkis Quotes & Sayings

On a deeper level, there's a level of privacy that I need in order to work, and if there's been a time when there's been a lot of publicness in my life, it can be a little bit difficult to sort of rebuild that private space. — Stacey D'Erasmo

If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed, — Thomas Jefferson

Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, because he made such a multiplicity of them. — Edwin Newman

No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book. — Joseph Wambaugh

And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

When you've got the virgin and the whore sitting next to each other, they're likely to judge each other harshly.
— Tori Amos

There's this movie, 'Zero Dark Thirty' about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Some have complained that too many 'secrets' were dished out by the intelligence and special operations communities to director Kathryn Bigelow, screenwriter Mark Boal and their crew, part of a broader pattern of using intelligence for political effect. — Michael Hayden

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. — Dag Hammarskjold

There has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period when there have been unnecessary killings. — Rebecca West

Obama's global drone assassination campaign, a remarkable innovation in global terrorism, exhibits the same patterns. By most accounts, it is generating terrorists more rapidly than it is murdering those suspected of someday intending to harm us - an impressive contribution by a constitutional lawyer on the eight hundredth anniversary of Magna Carta, which established the basis for the principle of presumption of innocence that is the foundation of civilized law. — Noam Chomsky

To change, it takes a decision based on faith, faith takes forgetting everything you thought you knew. — Shannon Leto

My idol growing up was Charlie Chaplin. I was obsessed with him. I mean, while other kids were watching Jim Carrey and the likes in the '90s, I was watching Charlie Chaplin films, because I was a bit of a geek. I became obsessed with this idea of physical comedy. — Josh Gad

Smartphones are always in your pocket. They're about reactive capture. — Nick Woodman

In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost. — Kim Young-sam