Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Vijay Mallya: Brand ambassador
“Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.” —Vijay Mallya.
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Remo D’Souza: Budgets
“Hollywood and Bollywood films cannot be compared because of their budgets!” —Remo D’Souza.
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A R Rahman: Institution of marriage
“The institution of marriage works better when there’s a spiritual connection. If you’re marrying just for the sake of the woman, then you may lose interest in each other very soon. When we marry in the interest of the Holy Spirit with the intention of serving God and humanity, then it gives a much larger…
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Emily Blunt: Advocate for short engagements
“Personally, I’m an advocate for short engagements. Long sometimes means there is a reason for it. Two years engaged and no wedding… I’d be upset.” —Emily Blunt.
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Louis Pasteur: Suffering
“One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me.” —Louis Pasteur, chemist and bacteriologist (27 Dec 1822-1895).
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Bradley Cooper: Image that’s not real
“You can’t really control how people are going to feel about you; all you can really do is be yourself. Because if you seduce somebody, and you seduce them by pretending to be a certain way, once they are seduced they are going to find that you are not that way. And then you have…
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Kendall Jenner: Not a nice feeling
“What people don’t understand is that calling someone too skinny is the same as calling someone too fat; it’s not a nice feeling.” —Kendall Jenner.
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Isla Fisher: False idea of beauty
“Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.” —Isla Fisher.
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Matthew Morrison: Fame
“Fame, you know, it’s like a handgun – in the wrong hands, it’s dangerous.” —Matthew Morrison.
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Bradley Cooper: Peacocks
“I don’t know if it’s animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around.” —Bradley Cooper.
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G K Chesterton: Puritanism and paganism
“Puritanism made a man too individual, and had its horrible outcome in Individualism. Paganism makes a man too collective, and its extreme outcome is in Communism.” —G K Chesterton.
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Scarlett Johansson: Public advocate
“If you take a job as a public advocate, then you must advocate publicly.” —Scarlett Johansson.
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Bradley Cooper: In a relationship
“In a relationship you want to treat people the way you want to be treated.” —Bradley Cooper.
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Danny Thomas: Success
“Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.” —Danny Thomas.
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Adolfo Bioy Casares: Even the wolf
“Even the wolf has its moments of weakness, in which it sides with the lamb and thinks: I hope it runs away.” —Adolfo Bioy Casares, writer.
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Margot Robbie: That’s not living
“I’d rather trust nine people and have the 10th one stab me in the back. I’d take that fall in order to have those nine friendships or working relationships instead of having none. That’s not living.” —Margot Robbie.
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Kate Beckinsale: Road to complete madness
“I think that dwelling on other people’s perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.” —Kate Beckinsale.
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Holly Carpenter: Being coy gets you nowhere
“I think guys are afraid of being too straightforward, so sometimes being coy gets you nowhere.” —Holly Carpenter.
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Conor McGregor: Obsessed
“There’s no talent here, this is hard work. This is an obsession. Talent does not exist, we are all human beings. You could be anyone if you put in the time. You will reach the top, and that’s that. I am not talented, I am obsessed.” —Conor McGregor.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Con
“I can’t name a single issue with roots in race that doesn’t have economic implications, and I cannot think of a single economic issue that doesn’t have racial implications. The idea that we have to separate them out and choose one is a con.” —Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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R Kelly: Being in love
“They say marriage will change you but it didn’t change me. Being in love changed me.” —R. Kelly.
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Nancy Pelosi: I don’t cry
“If I cry, it’s about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics – no, I don’t cry.” —Nancy Pelosi.
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Andrea Bocelli: Ear of a child
“Because, in opera, I have to sing for people that are very far from me, instead of, when I sing a song, I try to imagine to sing like in an ear of a child.” —Andrea Bocelli.
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Conor McGregor: Seek the uncomfortable
“The more you seek the uncomfortable the more you become comfortable.” —Conor McGregor.
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Margot Robbie: Playing a bad guy
“Playing a bad guy is always more fun than playing the good guy.” —Margot Robbie.
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Brian Wilson: Much harder to function
“If there’s not love present, it’s much, much harder to function. When there’s love present, it’s easier to deal with life.” —Brian Wilson.
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Mel Gibson: Between conversation and chocolate
“After about 20 years of marriage, I’m finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.” —Mel Gibson.
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Toni Braxton: Therapy
“If you break your knee, you have therapy on your knee, and it’s the same for your heart.” —Toni Braxton.
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Ruby Rose: Work hard
“You don’t wake up at 18 and necessarily become the person you want to be as an adult – you have to work hard to become them.” —Ruby Rose.
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Queen Elizabeth: Lacked statesmanship
“We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.” —Queen Elizabeth.
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Britney Spears: Answering machine
“I don’t really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won’t forget it.” —Britney Spears.
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Confucius: Superior man
“The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.”…
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Marcus Tullius Cicero: Happier
“I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero.
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G K Chesterton: Laws
“When you break the big laws you do not get liberty: you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.” —G K Chesterton.
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Konrad Adenauer: History
“History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.” —Konrad Adenauer.
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Simon Sinek: Friends
“Our friends don’t love us for what we do. Our friends love us for who we are.” —Simon Sinek.
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Max Eastman: Sense of humor
“It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.” —Max Eastman, journalist and poet (4 Jan 1883-1969.
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Christopher Dawson: Secularism
“Secularism is terrible not only on account of its emptiness but because there is a positive power of evil waiting to fill the void, like the unclean spirit in the parable that came out of the waste places into the empty soul.” —Christopher Dawson.
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Dyan Cannon: Unconditional love, patience and acceptance
“I found it when I came to understand that I had to practice unconditional love, patience, and acceptance first before I could expect that from any partner. I had to become the person that I wanted to fall in love with.” —Dyan Cannon.
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Malcolm Muggeridge: Truth, much worse
“It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.” —Malcolm Muggeridge.
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Warren Buffett: Inflation
“Inflation is the one thing that, over a long period of time, can turn investors’ results, in aggregate, into a negative figure. And it’s the investors’ enemy.” —Warren Buffett.
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C S Lewis: Pain
“When pain is to be borne, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.” —C S Lewis.
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G K Chesterton: Idolatry
“Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.” —G K Chesterton.
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Anna Pavlova: Success and happiness
“When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.” —Anna Pavlova.
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Justin Trudeau: Feminist
“Quite frankly I talk about the fact that I’m a feminist as often as I can, and every time I do it gets huge reaction and media reacts and the Twitterverse explodes and things like that, because here I am saying I’m a feminist. I will keep saying that until there is no more reaction…
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Simon Sinek: Much more exciting
“The challenge of our unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of our accomplished past.” —Simon Sinek.
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Isaac Asimov: Cult of ignorance
‘There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”‘—Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer…
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Walter Brueggemann: Dangerous alternatives
“Newness happens in the world when long silenced people get their voice enough to sing dangerous alternatives.” ~ Walter Brueggemann.
