Famous Quotes & Sayings

Trevor Manuel

This generation, our generation of people who benefited, must always be the pioneers who look to younger people and say mediocrity is not accommodated in what we do.

Walter Benjamin

The experience of our generation: that capitalism will not die a natural death.

Samuel Beckett

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. Let us not speak well of it either. Let us not speak of it at all. It is true the population has increased.

Vasily Grossman

In the cruel and terrible time in which our generation has been condemned to live on this earth, we must never make peace with evil. We must never become indifferent to others or undemanding of ourselves.

Vince Flynn

I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business--the most talented espionage novelist of our generation.

Orlando Jones

Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?

Niall Ferguson

It’s our generation that is witnessing the end of Western predominance. The average American used to be more than 20 times richer than the average Chinese. Now it’s just five times, and soon it will be 2.5 times.

Pranab Mukherjee

In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.

Prince

Our [generation] people have the worst diet of anybody. I'm ready to put a farmer on my payroll. We've got to get back to growing our own food. You are what you eat!

William James

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

Sarah Palin

I cherish the accomplishments of Margaret Thatcher and will always count her as one of my role models.

Sara Ramirez

I'm glad to be a role model, but beyond that I'm a flawed human being, someone who continues to deal with my body image and what my purpose is on the planet.

Wayne Dyer

Simply be the qualities you seek in others.

Wilma Rudolph

I don't consciously try to be a role model, so I don't know if I am or not. That's for other people to decide.

Treat Williams

Honestly, I didn't know I was a role model.

Yuan T. Lee

It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.

Yani Tseng

Annika's my role model, and I wish in the future I could be like her.

Jordan Peele

Obama was the best thing for black nerds everywhere. Finally we had a role model. Before Obama, we basically had Urkel.

Rob Zombie

The studio experience fluctuates depending on who you work with, it's not like it's all one experience. Every studio is different, every producer's personality is different. You never know what you're going to do.

Roy Yamaguchi

I love showing my personality in my cooking.

Trisha Goddard

I am an addictive personality.

Woody Harrelson

It's an odd beast, fame. It's got multiple personalities.

Woodrow Wilson

I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

Sarah Silverman

You want the actors to disappear into roles and stay under the radar, and that gets harder when someone is known for their actual personality, or who they seem to be.

Richard M. Nixon

Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work.

Richard M. Nixon

The Jews are just a very aggressive and abrasive and obnoxious personality.

Robert De Niro

I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality.