I’d rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
Art is like breathing for me. If I don’t do it, I start to choke.
Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.
I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
I get inspiration from a lot of things around me – nature, hills, people, and even insects.
Eskimo: ‘If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?’ Priest: ‘No, not if you did not know.’ Eskimo: ‘Then why did you tell me?’
I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
I’m not trying to be different. To me, I’m just being myself.
A lot of people would say ‘sexy’ is about the body. But to me, ‘sexy’ is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
Life to me is a journey – you never know what may be your next destination.
If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
The stage is my first love. It gives me immense self-satisfaction, a sort of power because a stage actor carries the audience along; it’s a live performance; spontaneity is its soul.
Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.
There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the truth or obey the laws they are sworn to uphold. I do not believe they protect me in any way.
Don’t send me flowers when I’m dead. If you like me, send them while I’m alive.
Baseball has been very good to me.
I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that’s fine.
I love my mother and father. The older I get, the more I value everything that they gave me.
I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.
Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.
Nature is my church. The wind in the trees and the bugs and the frogs. All those things are comfort to me.
I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.
I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Often, small things give me hope when big things feel so oppressively bleak.
I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true.
A girl phoned me the other day and said… ‘Come on over, there’s nobody home.’ I went over. Nobody was home.
Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.
If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.
I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening.
Swimming gives me immense satisfaction.
I feel extremely honoured and humbled that people are showing me so much love. My fans have stood by me through thick and thin, and I think this love is what makes my concerts house-full.
Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand.
I am proud to be their child. It is very inspiring for me. I am inspired by my mom and dad.
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
I used to be very vain about my thumbs. I have fat thumbs. If there’s a movie where you see me on the phone, it’s not my hands.
I want to be judged by who I am, not what I am. I mean, I am Johnny Weir. Judge me the way you see me, love me the way you see me, hate me the way you see me.
I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
For me, the team always comes first, and without the help of my colleagues, I am nothing.
I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me – like food or water.
My attitude is, if someone’s going to criticize me, tell me to my face.
I think it’s difficult to say what exactly made me become a successful DJ. It depends on so many different things. If I were given an award, I would thank my family, friends, Tiesto and the great team behind me for all their support and hard work. Without them, I wouldn’t be where I am today.
Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.
What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.
In me the tiger sniffs the rose.
I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.
Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that’s why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
Trust me, you can’t change anything without causing some degree of disruption. It’s impossible, that is exactly what change is. Some people are uncomfortable with the disruption that change causes, but the disruption is necessary if anything is going to change.
I don’t care what I look like; it’s how people think of me. And I do care how people think of me. I want people to say, ‘Oh, she’s nice,’ rather than, ‘Oh, she’s so pretty.’
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
I’m really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.
One of the things that attracts me to vintage and antique things is they have stories, and even if I don’t know the stories, I make them up.
Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser.
My dad said to me, ‘Work hard and be patient.’ It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
Each day has a story to – deserves to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories.
My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.
Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I’m totally fine with that being me.
I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
