I had a difficult time hearing my own inner voice about what I wanted to be in this life, because there were all these perfect examples of what a man actually does. The notion is that he goes to college, gets married and provides. That's what a man does.

Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right; immediately.

Sam Slick

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas

Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing.

Gael Garcia Bernal

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Archibald McLeish

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

John Churton Collins

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

Agnetha Faltskog

It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Penelope Fitzgerald

The question is not what you look at, but what you see. a

Henry David Thoreau

A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Edmund Burke

The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.

Wynonna Judd

The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable.

Dorothy Nevill