“When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.” Quote by Benicio Del Toro
“My mother often says that she could never have done it if I had been the youngest, if she had other small children she had to cart around New York City for my auditions and go-sees (modeling auditions) and stuff.” IfsChildrenDoneMotherStuffCitiesNew YorkNew York CityAuditionsModelingSmall ChildCarts Author:Katherine Heigl
“I have built up so much stuff , I am afraid I would cry forever, or have to go to sleep for weeks, or I would want to make some changes, and it is all just so overwhelming that we just keep going and going and going. It's a problem. It creates all kinds of illnesses of the physical and mental kind.” WantKindProblemStuffSleepForeverWeekCryBuiltIllnessAll KindsKeep GoingOverwhelmingGoing To Sleep Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“Our world is integrated to an unprecedented degree, while the global political awakening is injecting into interstate relations an intense amount of tension, emotion, even irrationality, which could cumulatively produce circumstances that preclude an effective and genuinely shared universal response to new global problems.” WorldProblemPoliticalEmotionProduceAmountCircumstancesDegreesUniversalRelationResponseAwakeningIntenseTensionOur WorldIntegratedUnprecedentedIrrationalityInterstate Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“I recommend learning how to come into the presence of stillness and vastness. Learn any form of meditation. Spend twenty minutes every day if possible, in meditation, listening to the crazy monkey mind inside you, and learning how to still the thoughts and discover that big, deep soulful part of yourself.” IfsMindStillsBigsFormMeditationCrazyMinutesListeningTwentiesStillnessMonkeysVastnessSoulfulMonkey Mind Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“I've done a lot of movies, and you really never know. You do a movie and you think that it's great, and then you see it and it doesn't work.” ThinkingKnowsDone Author:Benicio Del Toro
“I think the main problem people have getting older, whether they know it or not, is that you're closer to dying. And we may fixate on not wanting to look a certain way, but it really is just the clock ticking, that it means, "Oh, I am not immortal!".” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayLooksMayMeanProblemCertainDyingClockImmortalGetting OldGetting OlderClock Ticking Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“Instead of fixating on the physical aspects of aging, it's good to contemplate the deeper source of our anxiety. That can be liberating.” SourceAnxietyAspectAgingDeeperContemplatingLiberating Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“I didn't make any kind of grades in high school. My mother was a single mom, putting my three sisters through college, and I was such a bad student that I knew I had no right to take her money. But I loved being in classes and learning. I took in a huge amount of what I learned, but I had a feeling of always being behind and being in trouble.” KindFeelingsSchoolMotherThreeBehindsClassTroubleStudentsCollegeHugeMomAmountHigh SchoolGradesSingle MomThree Sisters Author:Louis C. K.
“I don't enjoy the diminishing agility of the body!I had knee surgery and I no longer can go do three yoga classes and run. It's not as much fun, physically. But emotionally, it's way more fun. I am so much happier and contented and less agitated - I'm just calmer. So it's like everything in this human existence, it's a trade off - it's like you trade the virility of the body for the agility of the spirit. That's a good line. I have to remember that!” WayHumansBodyRunningRememberSpiritThreeFunEnjoyLinesExistenceClassLike YouYogaTradeKneesSurgeryHuman ExistenceAgilityTrade OffsCalmer Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“Unfortunately, in Hollywood, there are those directors that have some contempt for actors. We've all experienced that, in one way or another.” WayActorsDirectorsHollywoodOne WayContempt Author:Vin Diesel