Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Mark Gatiss: Grotesque people
“I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks – who is David Copperfield, who is Oliver Twist? And yet he takes such joy in populating the rest of his novels with these fantastic, grotesque people like Pecksmith and so on.” —Mark Gatiss.
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Steven Moffat: Intelligence in your audience
“I can’t see what’s wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what’s bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.” —Steven Moffat.
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Emraan Hashmi: Nepotism
“Yes, nepotism exists in the industry and I got a break because of it.” —Emraan Hashmi.
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Christopher Walken: Public image
“You know, there’s nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do things honestly. I guess honesty is what you would call subjective: if you feel good about what you’re doing, yourself, if you figure you’re doing the right thing.” —Christopher Walken.
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Britney Spears: Daisy Duck
“If I was to pick a cartoon character I am most like, I would say Daisy Duck because she is very stubborn, she has a very feminine sense, and she knows what she likes.” —Britney Spears.
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Sofia Vergara: I’m blonde
“Yes, I’m blonde. When I started as an actor, because of the accent and my body and my personality, it was not what the stereotype of the Latina woman in Hollywood is, so they didn’t know where to put me. The blond hair wasn’t matching. The moment I put my hair dark, it was better…
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Melania Trump: Best possible education
“You judge a society by how it treats its citizens. We must do our best to ensure that every child can live in comfort and security, with the best possible education.” —Melania Trump.
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Zac Efron: Be open and receptive
“You always have something to learn from people who have been through more than you. Be open and receptive to what they know.” —Zac Efron.
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Gertrude Stein: Common sense
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” —Gertrude Stein.
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Walter Bagehot: Vices and temptations
“It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.” —Walter Bagehot.
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Anna Freud: Creative minds
“Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.” – Anna Freud.
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Erik Voorhees: Useful and scarce
“Economists and journalists often get caught up in this question: Why does Bitcoin have value? And the answer is very easy. Because it is useful and scarce.” —Erik Voorhees.
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Sidharth Malhotra: Future of filmmaking
“The future of filmmaking is to make the canvas bigger, something you can’t enjoy on your phones or computers.” —Sidharth Malhotra.
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Jessica Biel: Always been physical
“I’ve always been physical. I have no concept of what life is like without physical activity.” —Jessica Biel.
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Melania Trump: You cannot change a person
“You cannot change a person. Let them be. Let them be the way they are.” —Melania Trump.
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Britney Spears: Amazing feeling
“With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt… because love is an amazing feeling.” —Britney Spears.
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Liam Neeson: Rejection
“For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don’t make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you’re told you’re too tall or you’re too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You’re rejected for your education, you’re rejected for this or that and…
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Helen Mirren: Completely accidental and random
“I don’t believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you’re spending your time doing something worthwhile.” —Helen Mirren.
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Harry Styles: Good flirt
“I think you have to be cool to be a good flirt, and I don’t think I’m very cool.” —Harry Styles.
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Fidel Castro: Fundamental principle of criminal law
“It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there is no offense.” —-Fidel Castro.
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Stan Lee: Spider-man
“I never thought that Spider-Man would become the world wide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I’d keep my job.” —Stan Lee, interview, March 13, 2006.
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Michelle Obama: It is odd
“It is odd because now I have a door and a doorbell and people actually trip out when I come to my door and I open it and the dogs, Bo and Sunny, don’t know what a doorbell is. So, the doorbell rings and they’re like, ‘I’ve never heard that before.‘” —Michelle Obama on life…
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Langston Hughes: Jazz
“Jazz , to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul – the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.…
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Melania Trump: Everyone wants change
“Everyone wants change. Donald is the only one that can deliver it. We should not be satisfied with stagnation.” —Melania Trump.
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St. Brigid: I should like…
“I should like a great lake of beer for the King of Kings. I should like the angels of Heaven to be drinking it through time eternal. I should like excellent meats of belief and pure piety. I should like the men of Heaven at my house. I should like barrels of peace at their…
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Britney Spears: Success
“For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn’t about conquering something; it’s being happy with who you are.” —Britney Spears.
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Jim Carrey: Desperation
“Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.” —Jim Carrey.
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Celine Dion: Look within yourself
“The hardest thing to find in life is balance – especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself. ” —Celine Dion.
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Rita Ora: Women love an honest man
“Women love an honest man. An honest man that isn’t afraid to say, ‘Men get hurt too.’ And a lot of men don’t admit that. ” —Rita Ora.
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Tomi Lahren: Echo chamber
“To exist in an echo chamber and only talk to people with whom we agree is fruitless.” —Tomi Lahren.
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Frederick Douglass: Freedom and agitation
“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.” —Frederick Douglass.
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Kate Upton: Pick-up lines
“I just think that pick-up lines in general are horrible. None of them work.” —Kate Upton.
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Ayn Rand: Contradictions
“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.” —Ayn Rand.
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Shakira: Respect and affection
“My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don’t respect you and when they respect you they don’t love you.” —Shakira.
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Ellen DeGeneres: Emote
“Laugh. Laugh as much as you can. Laugh until you cry. Cry until you laugh. Keep doing it even if people are passing you on the street saying, ‘I can’t tell if that person is laughing or crying, but either way they seem crazy, let’s walk faster.’ Emote. It’s okay. It shows you are thinking…
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Robert Wagner: God’s gifts
“I’ve learned one important thing about God’s gifts – what we do with them is our gift to Him.” —Robert Wagner.
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Gianni Versace: Road to the future
“I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.” —Gianni Versace.
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Sandra Cisneros: Tiny little things
“The older I get, the more I’m conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world. Tiny little things, but the world is made up of tiny matters, isn’t it?” —Sandra Cisneros, writer.
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Melania Trump: Old-fashioned way
“My husband doesn’t text… It’s always phone calls. I like that because you hear the voice the old-fashioned way.” —Melania Trump.
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Jack Ma: Learn other skills
“I told my son: you don’t need to be in the top three in your class, being in the middle is fine, so long as your grades aren’t too bad. Only this kind of person [a middle-of-the-road student] has enough free time to learn other skills.” —Jack Ma.
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Bernie Sanders: Election days
“Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent – a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice – that struggle continues.” —Bernie Sanders.
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Kareena Kapoor Khan: High heels
“It’s unarguable that the right shoes can really add elegance to an outfit and to the person who’s wearing them. Take a pair of high heels, for instance. Suddenly, you’re looking taller, shoulders back, body curved.” —Kareena Kapoor Khan.
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Janet Yellen: Housing wealth
“Housing wealth – the net equity held by households, consisting of the value of their homes minus their mortgage debt – is the most important source of wealth for all but those at the very top.” —Janet Yellen.
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Carter G Woodson: Educate them
“In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.” —Carter G Woodson.
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Tim O’Reilly: Commodity
“Whenever one thing becomes a commodity, humans make something else valuable.” —Tim O’Reilly.
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Meghan Markle: Food makes travel exceptional
“Food makes travel so exceptional, because you get to taste what it’s actually supposed to taste like. To eat the real Pad Thai or finally have a proper curry is something pretty amazing.” —Meghan Markle.
