Shirin Ebadi Quotes

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

You can live your life being scared of losing someone, and at the end of the day, if he is going to leave you, he'll leave you, and that's it.

Probably not much of a song left in me, you know, if any, because I've written so many, some 250 songs or 300 or whatever it is.

My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.

I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.

I am just convinced that people want to see people on TV who are more like themselves.

The striking thing about 'New Girl' is that under all the comedy, there's something about the emotions and reactions that feels very real - much more real than other sitcoms. Like - maybe everybody is sort of laid bare in different ways.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

We fight terrorism. It threatens our sovereign, democratic, compassionate and decent way of life.

I've been acting since I was six years old, but not professionally.

Every now and then, someone will stop me and say, 'Do I know you?' And I just say, 'Nope.'

In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!

The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

A traveler is really not someone who crosses ground so much as someone who is always hungry for the next challenge and adventure.

Everything's changed. The technology is the big thing changing now, the way movies like 'Alice' or 'Avatar' are made. And technology on the other side, the audience side. Word spreads so fast now on a movie, with the Internet, and piracy is something coming down the line like in the music industry.

I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.