Cameron Crowe Quotes

I knew 'Almost Famous' wasn't playing in theaters at that long length. And really, it wasn't one of those terrible squabbles that you read about, where people want to change their name or anything. Our toughest discussion was, did Kate Hudson dance too long? It wasn't that big of a deal.

Cameron Crowe

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• I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • School
  • Day
  • Positive

• I talk every day about doing the right thing.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Day
  • Doing The Right Thing

• In America, music is more tightly categorized.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Music
  • America
  • More

• There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Very
  • Days
  • Humanitarian

• I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Food
  • Rest
  • Football

• Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Small
  • Light
  • Single

• When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Soul
  • Black
  • Water

• I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Time
  • Happy

• I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Yourself
  • Gift
  • Forgiveness

• I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Color
  • Bold
  • Pink

• There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Different
  • Start
  • Gender

• Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.

  

  Adam Petty
  • Different
  • You
  • Two

• This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Environmental

• You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • You
  • Cannot
  • Govern

• When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Same

• The tale of 'Point Break' is about doing what you love and committing to what you love. It's relevant to me as a Venezuelan, to you as an American, to any Chinese person watching the film.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Film
  • Person
  • Watching

• One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Business
  • Society
  • Community

• A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • American
  • Man
  • Action

• From beginning to end it's about keeping the energy and the intensity of the story and not doing too much and not doing too little, but just enough so people stay interested and stay involved in the characters.

  

  Deborah Cox
  • People
  • Energy
  • Beginning

• I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.

  

  Deborah Cox
  • People
  • Work
  • Moments

• When it comes to Republican debates, fibs and fits come first; facts come last.

  

  David Brock

• The record label used to try and make us do stuff, like dance, and we'd say, nah, not doing that.

  

  Keren Woodward Bananarama
  • Dance
  • Stuff
  • Record Labels

• I knew 'Almost Famous' wasn't playing in theaters at that long length. And really, it wasn't one of those terrible squabbles that you read about, where people want to change their name or anything. Our toughest discussion was, did Kate Hudson dance too long? It wasn't that big of a deal.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Long
  • Dance