Mark Takano Quotes

You can't not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.

Mark Takano

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

ExperienceWorldStartThinkBetter

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

FearManFateStrangeWorstHim

I had begun my professional career when I was 9 years old at the Cleveland Play House, and it was a very specific, real theater sort of like, you know, in England and the Berliner Ensemble - very devoted people. And I thought the theater was the greatest place I had ever been, and that's what I wanted to do.

Joel Grey

PeopleThoughtYouCareerHouse

As caretakers, we feel drained when caring for another, and in order to take care of someone else, we need to take care of ourselves at the same time.

Jenna Morasca

TimeCaringCareTake CareSomeone

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

John Steinbeck

ManDedicationBelieveLiterature

Our compulsive hunger always to know first, speak first and decide first has only been amplified by the fact that we can now all participate instantly in a virtual version of a national cocktail-party conversation on Twitter, Facebook and blogs.

John Podhoretz

SpeakConversationKnowNowFirst

What holds you back in comedy is fear.

Sinbad

FearComedyYouBackHolds

I am very willing to admit that I have some poetical abilities, and as few - if any - writers, either moral or political, are intimately acquainted with the classes of mankind among whom I have chiefly mingled, I may have seen men and manners in a different phasis from what is common, which may assist originality of thought.

Robert Burns

MenI AmThoughtPoliticalManners

I didn't take a lot of crap from people, and I didn't follow the conventional rules of behavior that we're supposed to follow - because if I had, I never would have accomplished what I did.

Ron Stallworth

PeopleBehaviorRulesNeverFollow

I suffered from self hatred so much. It's like I didn't want to look like that any more. I didn't to feel like that any more. It had to be another way.

Mary J. Blige

SelfFeelLookWantWayHatred

I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are.

Martina Hingis

PeopleSayingChanceBetterPlay

It is home schooling that is rejecting a narrowness. It is not a radical value system; it's actually quite conservative.

Michael Leunig

HomeValueConservativeSystemQuite

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.

Milton Berle

FunnyManThinkYouCongressHim

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Mark Takano