I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.

Maggie Q

My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.

Jane Campion

A good teacher must know the rules a good pupil, the exceptions.

Martin H. Fischer

The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want.

Walter Lippmann

Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.

Thomas Carlyle

When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.

Charlie Sheen

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

Charles Dickens

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

Lucretius

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are co

Bertrand Russell

Heaven unites again the links that Earth has broken! For on Earth so much is needed, but in Heaven Love is all!

Adelaide Anne Procter

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

Richard Dawkins