Charlie Dent Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
If our hard-earned liberty, our desire to be irreverent of the old and to question the new, can be reduced to one, basic and indispensable right, it must be the right to free speech.
-
I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
-
I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.
-
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
-
I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
-
I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
-
I am not in the business of suppressing books.
-
It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?
-
In life go straight and turn right.
-
I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
-
We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
-
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
-
So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.
-
Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
-
The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
-
The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
-
I'm at like 325 pairs right now, give or take. But I've given away about 200 pairs of sneakers. I'm not as big of a collector as I used to be, because I think the game just got weird. Everybody likes to collect now, so it's kind of corny. But I got the essentials.
-
Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
-
It's not enough to have a strategy for success. Great strategy is available for free online for everything from career success to meeting Mr. or Ms. Right. You must also tell yourself the right story.
-
Some deeper part of me wants to write comical dialogue; I'd be foolish to not follow that impulse. Now I recognize that if there's energy to a section of work, you go where the energy is. It's a living thing, and you just follow it.
-
To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.
-
We need to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy.
