Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brett Ratner

I ask my assistants if they're retarded all the time. When the camera is on you, of course, actors have the ability to make it real. For me, if I'm not talking, it is a problem. I have so much more respect for actors after being in front of the camera, and I realize that the hardest part is when you're not talking. Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

Brandon Lee

We tend to take a great deal for granted, because you feel like you're going to live forever. It's only if you lose a friend, or maybe have a near-death experience, [that] many events and people in your life suddenly attain real significance.

Ben Parr

More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.

Barbara Lee

My goal is to help elect not only the first but second woman president. That will be real progress. I believe our next presidential election will see women at the top of the ticket for both parties.

Barbara Kingsolver

For scientists, reality is not optional.

Bashar al-Assad

We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.

Bashar al-Assad

Many people do not understand the difference between peace and a peace treaty. If you want to have real peace with normal relations between people, you need to have comprehensive peace.

Baruch Spinoza

Reality and perfection are synonymous.

Barbara Sher

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.

Al Gore

...unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes...

Ban Ki-moon

Many say our world is at a tipping point. If we do not act together, if we do not act responsibly, if we do not act now, we risk slipping into a cycle of poverty, degradation, and despair.

Albert Schweitzer

But merely accepting authoritarian truth, even if that truth has some virtue, does not bring skepticism to an end. To blindly accept a truth one has never reflected upon retards the advance of reason. Our world rots in deceit. . . . Just as a tree bears the same fruit year after year and at the same time fruit that is new each year, so must all permanently valuable ideas be continually created anew in thought. But our age pretends to make a sterile tree bear fruit by tying fruits of truth onto its branches.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Fortunately for us and our world, young people are not easily discouraged. The hopes of the world rest on the fresh outlook of young people

David Lynch

There's so many problems in our world, so much negativity. Don't worry about the darkness - turn on the light and the darkness automatically goes. Ramp up the light of unity within - help do that for yourself, help do that for the world and then we're really doing something, we're doing something that brings that light of unity.

David Lynch

We want to generate the electricity of peace through music, and it’s a thrill to know that the super-creative, enthusiastic musicians of our world are with us to achieve this goal.

Amelie Mauresmo

Yes, I have had difficult times on court and at certain tournaments but you need to forget about it and go forward because that's the way it works in our world.

Chuck Norris

We're all human beings. And we all have our prejudices and so forth, but the thing is, let's be tolerant with each other. And if we could do that, there would be a lot more peace in our world today.

Ray Stannard Baker

We muckraked, not because we hated our world, but because we loved it. We were not hopeless, we were not cynical, we were not bitter.

Brad Pitt

I do not suffer from Autism, but I do suffer from the way you treat me.

Andrew Solomon

There is neither a cure for nor a way to repair autism. There is no implant like there is for the deaf.

Claire Danes

You are the most brave intrepid person I have ever known, and you have dedicated your life to helping those who are misunderstood and underrepresented.

John Travolta

Autism and seizures are the least known areas of illnesses.

Abraham Lincoln

I walk slowly, but never backwards.

George Osborne

Autism is a very serious condition.

Jenny McCarthy

The reason why the medical community is reluctant to talk about it is because there's such a huge business in pharmaceuticals.

Temple Grandin

If I did not have my work, I would not have my life.

Claire Scovell LaZebnik

For a long time our son was a little boy with autism, which was a certain kind of challenge. Now that he's a teenager with autism - and a teenager who notices girls - we're faced with something else altogether.