„I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home“
— Tracy Chevalier, livro Girl with a Pearl Earring
Fonte: Girl with a Pearl Earring
„To make it in life, you and your wife need to be in the same business. That has been my problem all along. My wives didn't know what I was doing. I would come back home from the road to a stranger. That's no good.“
Brown, J. & Tucker, B. (2003). James Brown: The Godfather of Soul, p. 266. Thunder's Mouth Press: New York. ISBN 1-56025-388-6
Última atualização 22 de Maio de 2020. História
James Brown9
1933 - 2006Citações relacionadas
„You have to work hard in the industry. I didn't come into the industry and into the business and to do what I do to become famous. But I knew in the back of my head that if fame came along with it, that was a blessing. I love when someone recognizes me or wants an autograph. But for me it was about working rather than being a "star."“
— John Barrowman Scottish-American actor, singer, dancer, musical theatre performer, writer and television personality 1967
Fern Britton Meets John Barrowman BBC (2012)
„I left home young. I returned old;
Speaking as then, but with hair grown thin;
And my children, meeting me, do not know me.
They smile and say: "Stranger, where do you come from?"“
— He Zhizhang Chinese writer 659 - 744
(zh-TW) 少小離家老大回，鄉音無改鬢毛衰。
兒童相見不相識，笑問客從何處來。
"Coming Home" (《回乡偶书》) in Three Hundred Poems of the Tang Dynasty, trans. Witter Bynner
„I want to become a sweet wife, like when my husband comes back home from work, I want to encourage him kindly and warmly.“
— Satomi Ishihara Japanese actress 1986
Satomi Ishihara, " http://www.tokyohive.com/article/2013/06/ishihara-satomi-talks-about-her-view-on-marriage"
„I gotta big mouth, I can't help it, I talk from my heart, I'm real you know what I'm sayin whatever comes comes. But my controverse problems, It's not my fault, I try to find my way in the world you know, I try to be somebody instead of just, make money off of everybody. You know what im saying, so I go down paths that haven't been traveled before and I usually mess up, but I learn, you know what I'm saying, I come back stronger, I'm not talking ignorant, you know what I'm saying. So obviously put thought into what I do. So I think my mouth, my controverse, I have not been out of the paper since I joined Digital Underground, I've been in all, you know what I'm saying, my name has not been not uttered, you know what I'm saying, and that's good for me because I don't wanna be forgotten. If I'm forgotten then that means I'm comfortable and that means I think everything is okay.“
— Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996
1990s, MTV interview (1994)
„I did all my real growing up in France, which I was almost not allowed to do at home. They liked my voice, they found me sexy, they didn't know anything about my childhood. In England, you’d come on to a bright cheerful song, do a bit of comedy, finish on a big ballad and wear a sparkly dress. That was about it. Suddenly I saw people like Aznavour and Piaf, songs coming from your heart, your soul, your guts, your sex, whatever, songs about everything, life and death, love and hate, wow! I realised you can use all of you when you perform.“
— Petula Clark British actress and singer 1932
Calgary Herald, 14 Feb 2013
„My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly, madly!
You didn't know it then-you know it now.“
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
Fonte: Lady Windermere's Fan
„And you know, if my wife haven't said some forty years ago: do it, let's go to Brussels to study painting, [with a. o. Willem Roelofs ], then I probably would never have left my business [in banking].“
— Hendrik Willem Mesdag painter from the Northern Netherlands 1831 - 1915
translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek
(original Dutch: citaat van Hendrik Willem Mesdag, in het Nederlands:) En zie je, als mijn vrouw zo'n veertig jaar geleden niet gezegd had: doe 't maar, laten we maar gaan naar Brussel om te gaan studeren in schilderen, bij o.a. nl:Willem Roelofs, dan was 'k waarschijnlijk nooit uit mijn zaken getrokken.
Quote of Mesdag; as cited by nl:Marie Joseph Brusse, in his article 'Onder de menschen. Een gouden schilders-bruiloft', in Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant', 11 March, 1906
after 1880
„Imagine you go away
On a business trip one day
And when you come back home
Your children have grown
And you never made your wife moan“
— Regina Spektor American singer-songwriter and pianist 1980
Ghost Of Corporate Future
Soviet Kitsch (2004)
„I had spent my whole life feeling homesick. The only difference between the two of us was that I didn't know what or where home was.“
— Marian Keyes, Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married
Fonte: Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married
„My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one purpose, to give back to India her ancient freedom.“
— Annie Besant British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator 1847 - 1933
Indian critiques of Gandhi http://books.google.co.in/books?id=inhDAAAAYAAJ, p. 82
„I think it’s a real danger, as an actor, when you try to make some statement through your career about what the business should be doing or ultimately what your image should be or how you want to be perceived. I look at every project that comes along and say, “Is this something I can sink my teeth into and can do a good job on?” That’s really how I choose roles.“
— Leonardo DiCaprio American actor and film producer 1974
http://www.popmonk.com/actors/leonardo-dicaprio/quotes-leonardo-dicaprio.htm
„…I said everything that matters… Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.“
— Nicholas Sparks, livro The Best of Me
Evelyn Collier, Chapter 15, p. 223
Fonte: 2009, The Best of Me (2011)
„The only way I've been practicing my whole life, to live my life is to be responsible for what I do. I don't know how to be responsible for what every black male did, I don't know. And yes, I am gonna say that I'm a thug, that's because I came from the gutter and I'm still here! I'm not saying I'm a thug because I wanna rob you or rape people and things. I'm a business man, I mean, you know I'm a business man because you find me at my places of business.“
— Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996
1990s, Interview outside courthouse (1994)
„I know you. I have heard of you all my life. I know now what a scourge you have been to your country. Instead of killing fools you have been murdering the youth and genius that are necessary to make a people live and grow great.“
— O. Henry American short story writer 1862 - 1910
"The Fool-Killer"
The Voice of the City (1908)
Contexto: I know you. I have heard of you all my life. I know now what a scourge you have been to your country. Instead of killing fools you have been murdering the youth and genius that are necessary to make a people live and grow great. You are a fool yourself, Holmes; you began killing off the brightest and best of our countrymen three generations ago, when the old and obsolete standards of society and honor and orthodoxy were narrow and bigoted. You proved that when you put your murderous mark upon my friend Kerner — the wisest chap I ever knew in my life.
„I didn't like the trade. Santurce is close to my home town and I like the fans there. They good to me and cheer me all the time. I may not go back. I may work in Pittsburgh.“
— Roberto Clemente Puerto Rican baseball player 1934 - 1972
Reacting to the sale of his erstwhile winter ball team, Santurce, and his subsequent trade to San Juan; as quoted in "Roberto Does Better When He's Ailing" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rEQjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Ak4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=7048%2C256258 by Les Biederman, in The Pittsburgh Press (Saturday, March 2, 1957), p. 6
Baseball-related, <big><big>1950s</big></big>, <big>1957</big>
„I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.“
— Steve Jobs American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc. 1955 - 2011
2005-09, Address at Stanford University (2005)
Contexto: When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
„This was the beginning of something, yet I had ventured back into a world from which I had come and found it an alien world of which I was no longer a part. In a sense I had always been alien. My Druidic training had taken me deep into a past that held more than the present, and along with it had been my father’s accounts, returning home after voyages, of a world beyond our shores. I had mingled with the men of his crews, almost half of which had come from other lands, other cultures, until I had become a stranger in my own land.“
— Louis L'Amour, livro The Walking Drum
Fonte: The Walking Drum (1984), Ch. 31
