Power & Leadership Sayings

I don't want to be a man; I want to be a woman, but a woman who is strong and independent.

An actor’s a guy who, if you ain’t talking about him, ain’t listening.

I'm a walking, talking contradiction.

I am not interested in power nor do I envisage assuming it at any time. All that I will do is to make sure that the sacrifices of so many compatriots should not be in vain, whatever the future may hold in store for me.

The U.S. imperialists supply armaments to their henchmen to massacre the Indochinese peoples. They dump their goods in Indochina to prevent the development of local handicrafts. Their pornographic culture depraves the youth in areas placed under thei…

After Naples yellow, I'm most strongly drawn to the color of oxygen, that is to say blue. In Vermeer, those are the two colors one finds most permanently.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the moment of waking to the moment of sleep.

The duende is a power, not a working; a struggle, not a thought. I have heard an old master guitarist say: 'The duende is not in the throat; the duende surges up from the soles of the feet.'

Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted.

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

I always loved running...it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted.