Rebecca Quotes
The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now.
When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.
I am utterly in love with my son and my boyfriend and live in the most magical place on Earth. I've been in Norway for ten months now and I have loved every minute of it.
We become more worthy the more we bend our minds to the impersonal. We become better as we take in the universe, thinking more about the largeness that it is and laugh about the smallness that is us.
I'd have to say that, in general, models take themselves too seriously. Basically, they are genetic freaks who spend a couple of hours in hair and makeup.
We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.
Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing.
No question that the spotlight on Darfur has, for all intents and purposes, disappeared. And that's deeply problematic, because it hasn't disappeared because Darfur has been solved.
Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.
Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.
Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
Day by day we are building for eternity ... Every gentle word, every generous thought, every unselfish deed will become a pillar of eternal beauty in the life to come.
Make it a point to be around those with positive energy - people who want what's best for you, people who understand your goals and priorities.
Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.
It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities.
Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.
... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough.
You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.
My first car was in 2006 when I got on my first TV show - a BMW 328i2 four-door sedan in slate grey. That was a great day, that was.
EXPLORING the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains.
If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'
Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.
The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.
Luckily, I'm doing other things besides just modeling, because frankly, I'm a little bored with it.
Judgements like "right" and "wrong"; only build barriers and encourage shame within individuals.
The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the way things come together.
I always knew that God's way was the best, that I wanted to wait, and that I valued purity.
Having your husband at a party is like adding anchovies to a salad. I love anchovies, but you can't taste anything else.
I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.
There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.
I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits?
If you look at a lot of traditional societies, they're all organized along what we might call anarchist guidelines, but it's not like the Zapatistas were reading European social theory.
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
