Christopher Reeve Quotes

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.

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• What am I responsible for? Who am I responsible to? Everybody? How come when Archie Bunker nailed everybody, it was funny - but when I do it, it's not?

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Funny
  • Responsible
  • Who Am I

• Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Time
  • World
  • Chinese

• Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Try

• There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Hope
  • Beauty
  • Look

• If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Work
  • Living
  • Restaurant

• The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Done
  • Question
  • Immigration

• I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.

  

  Mac Davis
  • People
  • You
  • Communication

• I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Doing
  • Hatred

• Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Something
  • Selling
  • Clients

• I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Want
  • Talent

• Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Realize
  • Secrets
  • Hidden

• If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • You
  • Die
  • Find

• For as long as I can remember, we've been having debates about the foreign policy disasters and seemingly unsolvable problems around the world. Dinner conversations are replayed over generations - nothing seems to get better, and in some aspects, it seems dramatically worse, and that is especially true for women.

  

  Dana Perino
  • World
  • Long
  • Women

• People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • People
  • Great
  • Hero

• I know it's become an ongoing thing about whether videogames are art, and I think there's plenty of examples of things that use the form in a fascinating way. Things that are more surreal or artistic, like 'Katamari Damacy' or 'Vib-Ribbon.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Art
  • Think
  • Know

• Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Business
  • Know
  • Magic

• The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Find
  • Interest
  • Mystery

• I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.

  

  J. Cole
  • Different
  • Best
  • Like

• There's no such thing as a favorite investment. But I think I tend to invest in Asia in promising countries, in equities, in real estate, and I own precious metals, obviously.

  

  Marc Faber
  • Real

• The mother-in-law came round last week. It was absolutely pouring down. So I opened the door and I saw her there and I said, 'Mother, don't just stand there in the rain. Go home.'

  

  Les Dawson
  • Home
  • Mother
  • Law

• The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.

  

  Nana Visitor
  • Writing
  • Name
  • Point

• Feminists might identify with me because I'm unapologetic in what they think is a male-dominated world … no, I guess, what is a male-dominated world.

  

  Lucy Lawless
  • World

• If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Business
  • You
  • Drive

• Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.

  

  Christopher Reeve
  • Ocean
  • Pool