Too often, we are being programmed by the environment around us to behave differently. But I think a true leader is an authentic person who feels good about who he is. Paul Polman Read Quote
When I was about 12, I came home from middle school and told my parents I wanted to be an actor. My father didn’t say it to me, but he told my mom, ‘No. I’m not going to allow that. He’ll starve to death.’ I grew up in a small town in Illinois where being an actor was not something people did. Richard Jenkins Read Quote
My love life has never been of interest to people. Of course I have a love life; I have a real life outside of show business. RuPaul Read Quote
What’s interesting about the shift from an industrial age to a technological age is that we keep inventing new media: movies, records, radio, television, the Internet, and now ebooks – and one of the things that’s most interesting about the invention of a new medium is watching it reinvent itself as it penetrates the culture. David Gerrold Read Quote
My first ambition in life, I made up my mind I was going to become Miles Davis. I studied music, music theory. I played trumpet for nine years. One day, my mother explained, ‘You can’t be Miles Davis. There’s one, and he’s got that job.’ Chris Gardner Read Quote
I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America. Malachy McCourt Read Quote
We need people to point out groupthink – We need people to point out stale, old, dumb thinking – and we sometimes need to do that when it’s considered dangerous, strange, or, by some, offensive. And we should be, all of us, trying to protect that. It’s really important. Jon Lovett Read Quote
Math does come easily to me, but I was always much more interested in what theorems imply about the world than in proving them. Antony Garrett Lisi Read Quote
