quotes about Vip

“Get kids out of poverty. Poverty is devastating.”

“Don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now, work gone wrong, your plans all proving deceptive — don’t mourn them uselessly. As one long prepared, and graced with courage, say goodbye to her, the Alexandria that is leaving. Above all, don’t fool yourself, don’t say it was a dream, your ears deceived you: don’t degrade yourself with empty hopes like these.”

“Learning to love others begins with learning to love ourselves unconditionally first. I will never let myself down, treat myself like a doormat, or make myself small so others can feel big. I have learned that this is the biggest gift that I give not only to myself, but also to the planet, because I paint others with the same brush as I use on myself.”

“When we think of digitally disconnecting and inviting presence into our lives, we are creating the conditions of integration within and between.”

“My fame is due to broadcast television.”

“It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances.”

“As an actor, you know, I love not being pigeonholed, which is great. No one really knows who I am. So that's a positive.”

“Join The 5 am Club. Your most valuable hours are 5am-8am. They have the least interruptions.”

“There's always some youngster coming up- they'll find somebody.”

“When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.”

Source : "An Urchin in the Storm: Essays About Books and Ideas". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "The Quack Detector", p. 245, 1987.