392 quotes found
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.”
“My mother helped me to be who I am: to have strength and not to let people run all over me and yet to be humble to realise that all of this that I have today could be gone. ”
“Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.”
“Japan today has become acquainted with the Western civilization of the rule of Might, but retains the characteristics of the Oriental civilization of the rule of Right. Now the question remains whe...”
“A certain amount of impatience may be useful to stimulate and motivate us to action. However, I believe that a lack of patience is a major cause of the difficulties and unhappiness in the world today.”
“I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.”
“Today, it's about gender equality, not neutrality. Anyone who doesn't agree would be a bit of an idiot.”
“Costumes say a lot about a character. When it came to 'Palo Alto,' it was important for me that the kids didn't look perfect. In most teen movies today, all of the clothes are expensive. I remember...”
“Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.”
“Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma.”
“Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it's rare to find an artist who hasn't been touched or affected by the power and soul of gospel music. In fact, many of today's popular artists such as...”
“People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.”
“There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.”
“There are times pop music is the end result when I'm in the studio, but I don't really go in and say, 'Today I am going to make a pop song,' but it can happen.”
“Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?”
“The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as mu...”
“The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it.”
“In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.”
“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.”
“Just because so many conforming kids wake up every morning asking, 'What is everybody else going to wear today?' doesn't mean that they don't wish it were different. Peer pressure is just that: pre...”
