Christopher Guest Quotes

There are dozens and dozens of improv classes across the nation, but it really cannot be taught.

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• This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Business
  • Numbers
  • Investing

• Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Work
  • Important
  • May

• Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I'm stronger.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • True
  • Dream
  • Feelings

• One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • People
  • Water
  • Architecture

• When I am working it is up early and coffee and 15 hours of being on the set. When I am not working, it is up late and coffee, golf or softball and hopefully a ball game on the television.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Up
  • Game
  • Golf

• We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Business
  • Food
  • Attention

• Life at best is bittersweet.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Life
  • Best
  • Bittersweet

• Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Work
  • Society
  • Team

• I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Job
  • Desire
  • Acting

• The combination of lentils with rice or bulgur is the absolute height of Levantine comfort food. I could eat it every day.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Opposition
  • Other
  • Blinds

• First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Great
  • Christian
  • Religion

• We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • Believe
  • Clock
  • Legal

• As an actress, I value and rely on peaceful self-expression, not only in my daily life, but also in my professional work. This is particularly true, as my commitment to the promotion of human rights is an integral part of my calling as an artist.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Life
  • Work
  • True

• An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • You
  • Thought
  • Point

• I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read a cookbook.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Child

• People would continue to adopt a particular conception of the divine because it worked for them, not because it was scientifically or philosophically sound.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People

• Some Western powers admit that they have killed a large part of Jewish population in Europe and founded the occupied regime in order to put right the wrong they had committed.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

• The nothingness was a nakedness, a point,Beyond which fact could not progress as fact. Thereon the learning of the man conceived Once more night’s pale illuminations, goldBeneath, far underneath, the surface of His eye and audible in the mountain of His ear, the very material of his mind.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mind
  • Night
  • Learning

• You may break your heart, but men will still go on as before.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Men
  • Heart
  • May

• Misero è ben chi veder schiva il sole!

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Vice
  • Worn
  • Tutors

• The fracking chemicals sit in open pits, get trucked around, or sent through pipelines that can burst. What do you think happens when frack chemicals and floods and storm swollen rivers mix?

  

  Mark Ruffalo
  • Storm

• There are dozens and dozens of improv classes across the nation, but it really cannot be taught.

  

  Christopher Guest