Ultimately Quotes

Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.

I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations.

Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.

What I've learned is that it's okay to take from heroes, such as Debussy, but it has to be filtered through my own personality so that ultimately it's me.

To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.

The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds.

I think that people have to have to have a sense of what ideas are one the progressive side, the Democratic side in order ultimately to be effective in the political world.

Every actor I ever meet goes, 'Ultimately I plan on having my own company and write and direct,' but yes, I too would love to write and direct a movie. I want to do a play, too. I want to do it all.

Ultimately, I'm not so sure that, as a person, I'm all that interesting.

Ultimately, love conquers all, and gay or straight, don't we all want to believe that? I would that if this was to happen to me, and one of my kids had come and told me he or she was gay, I would say: If that's the only way you can live, then I love you.

I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.

Ultimately in the end, it's the director's choice.

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.

It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a scene and think to yourself, 'Oh, God. I was so deep in that moment,' and find it just didn't play. I don't know if I have very good radar about that or not.

If women feel they are able to go from partner to partner without feeling emotionally invested and ultimately hurt, they should go for it.

Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.

But, at the same time, I think that there is room for economic stimulus in terms of accelerated depreciation to encourage businesses to invest and to grow and ultimately to hire more people again.

I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people.

Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.

If you search and search and stop searching, then ultimately you'll find what you need. It is the experience of living.

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.

Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.

Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.