"No matter what you set out to do and how you set out to do it, you ultimately have to be who you are, and who you are as that character. So, I paid as much homage as I could to what Michael Clarke did, and had to rely on my own gifts to guide me through it."

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Source : Source: collider.com

Dennis Haysbert

#Character Quotes #Be Who You Are Quotes #Matter Quotes

“The reality is that I spent years in the factories in Italy when I first set up Jimmy Choo. Today, everyone who has a job at Jimmy Choo, I've done their job - right down to the cleaner.”
“In fact, we haven't ever really recalibrated our foreign policy commitments since the end of the Cold War. We still have alliances throughout Asia and across Europe that were devised to tame the Soviet Union, which, last time I checked, ceased to exist more than 20 years ago. Today, of course, we have a commitment to go to nuclear war with Russia in case Russia invades Latvia. To me, that's complete and utter nonsense. There ought to be a reconsideration of our posture in every region of the world.”
“Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.”
“I may be wearing makeup, but I can throw a fastball by you at the same time.”
“Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that ensures justice and historical momentum in an imperfect world, because without imagination we would not have the wherewithal to challenge certainty, and we could never rise above ourselves.”
“Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.”

Source : Lawrence Durrell (1991). “Clea”, Penguin Group USA
“We don't live in our fears. We live in our hopes.”

Source : "Steelers Notebook: Turf wars - Natural or artificial at Heinz Field?". The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 22, 2007.
“the hymns were born in the fifteenth or sixteenth century or earlier, and listening to them was like licking an icicle: the same chill, the same purity.”

Source : Mary Cantwell (1992). “Manhattan Memoir”, Penguin Group USA

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