Charlie Dent Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.
-
After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
-
As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.
-
Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.
-
The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
-
You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
-
I love the Middle East. My earliest childhood memories are of Jerusalem. I love the colors and smells and cadence of Arabic spoken in the streets of Cairo or Beirut. I also love the modernity and verve of Tel Aviv.
-
I think it's time for people to stop being so serious about everything.
-
It's always good to walk in a room and know everybody kind of looks up to you because I guess I've earned it.
-
I always liked parties. You meet people; you can have fun.
-
Early versions of Microsoft Word left a lot to be desired. However, to the company's credit, it quickly learned where Word fell short, made the necessary changes, and repeatedly introduced new versions of the software.
-
There's a lot of American people who like K-Pop for some reason. I don't know why, you know? But they like it even if they can't understand it because it has that style, that appeal.
-
All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
-
I have a great little camera, and I had a theory that if the story is interesting, it doesn't matter what medium you shoot it on. You just have to make a good film.
-
What should be the aim of management? What is their job? Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
-
As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.
-
His hips felt as if an army of mad acupuncturists had been driving hot needles into them.
-
The cine-camera and television set allow us to perceive slow motion. The concept of anything other than real time had never occurred to anybody until the first slow-motion movies were shown, and this radically altered people's perceptions of nature.
-
I like to be treated as a lady.
-
I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.
-
When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.
-
My wife likes history and documentaries, but I'm not so keen on them. I generally go and do some work if there's one of those on.
-
You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm - we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish - ourselves who consume: we are the mildew, and the flame.
-
You have to take positions on bills. There is no button for maybe or possibly.
