“Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway”
Robert Downey Jr. on Inside The Actors Studio, quoting Judd Nelson, 2006-07-09
“Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway”
Robert Downey Jr. on Inside The Actors Studio, quoting Judd Nelson, 2006-07-09
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
“Everything is on loan in life—everything.”
Agnelli: The Rules of the Game, Vanity Fair (1991)
As quoted in Sophia, Living and Loving: Her Own Story (1979) by A. E. Hotchner, p. 239.
“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”
[The Autumn of the Patriarch, 2006 [1976], HarperCollins, 978-0-06-088286-0, 254] translated from El Ontoño del Patriarica (1975) by Gregory Rabassa
“Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.”
“Life is short, but the years are long.”
Part of the secret "call and response" codewords by which members of the long-lived Howard Families can identify others:
: Life is short.
But the years are long.
Not while the evil days come not.
Methuselah's Children (1958)
“The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.”
“If you even dream of beating me, you'd better wake up and apologize.”
“What keeps me going is goals.”
“The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.”
Source: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
“Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.”
Variant: Someone who is a clever speaker and maintains a 'too-smiley' face is seldom considered a humane person.
Source: The Analects, Chapter I
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”
Non qui parum habet, sed qui plus cupit, pauper est.
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter II: On discursiveness in reading, Line 6.