Abdus Salam Quotes

If I had to give up cheese or chocolate, I'd give up chocolate in a heartbeat.

People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

My best friend Jerry started a boat-washing business, and it was one of the most critical experiences of my life. I got to meet a lot of people who were entrepreneurs. My parents were schoolteachers, and I was now meeting people who owned companies. I realized that if this guy can do it, why can't I?

I'm flattered by the fact that most people tell me they don't know what my politics are.

Working in the entertainment industry exposes me to every current cosmetic fad.

Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers, whereas a film's final cut vaporizes every other way it might have been made.

I like Velvet Underground, but I was never really hardcore into them. I like them, and I like Nico, but I won't front like I'm super knowledgeable. I just never got around to it.

To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.

The Buddha is in me, the Buddha is in you. Live up to it.

An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it.

Here's a bit of Discovery Channel for you - apples don't last forever. They can stay fresh for a long time, especially when refrigerated, but definitely not from December into the month of March.

CNN was one of the first news organizations in the world to train and equip its journalists before deploying them to dangerous areas.

As an actor, it's so, so rewarding and so pleasing to not be reprimanded.

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.

I grew up in a big ol' Latin family, so that's all the music we used to play - salsa music. We'd always dance and have fun. You know how families get down, man! We just had fun with it.

Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.

I'm challenging the assumption that you need to be a dog-eat-dog person to survive in a corporate environment.

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.