Abdurrahman Wahid Quotes

Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise.

When you start using test audiences, it becomes more scientific than it is about the work itself, and that's boring.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.

It's the only way I think I'm ever going to walk away from the game, is to go ahead and say I'm going to, and then I've got to. There's no turning back now - win, lose or draw.

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.

One of the things about being a minority actor is that you don't have that opportunity as some of your counterparts to keep that flow, to constantly be going from one thing to the other, so when you see really great performances out there by some black folks, you know it's coming from somewhere deep, because they just don't work as much.

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

Even the shows or movies that we know are not going to change the world, I love this. I love 'em. I'm a movie fan. I'm a nerd of any kind. I love a big studio comedy as much as I love the teeniest tiniest of indie. I'm not a snob in that way. I really do like a big, big studio comedy.

What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?

It's a lot more fun to play the bitch than it is to play the perfect girl 'cause everybody has a bad side inside of them.

Even though it was six o'clock, there was no sense of approaching dawn.

Either a war has to be fought, or it doesn't.

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.

What I'm pushing for is an economic discipline that will be closer to other social sciences; in particular, we should be more pragmatic about the methods that we are using instead of pretending that we have our own scientific apparatus with very sophisticated mathematic models that distinguish us from sociologists and historians.

Guys are idiots, till they're what, 40 years old.

At 40, I went to bed for three days. I thought my life is over.