Kathryn Bigelow Quotes

Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.

Kathryn Bigelow

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• Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • History
  • Rock
  • Mistake

• If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • Family
  • Alone
  • Week

• I've always been a rough kid.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Always
  • Kid
  • Rough

• I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Money
  • Artist
  • Entrepreneur

• Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Up
  • Work
  • Language

• I don't think there's any difference in my passion than when I was a young coach. I hope somebody in some way realizes I could be an asset, but we'll just wait and see.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Hope
  • Think
  • Passion

• In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.

  

  Edgar Meyer
  • Me
  • Honesty
  • Embarrassment

• Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Why
  • Party
  • Speak

• I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Day

• One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Always
  • Hard
  • Underestimate

• I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • People
  • Life
  • Woman

• As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Broken

• Today nearly every combat brigade located within the United States would report that they are not ready for duty. They are at the lowest levels of readiness.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Today
  • United States
  • Ready

• I thought they know that I was the Commander in Chief, not that I know that I am the Commander in Chief, and they should behave; know how to behave to the Commander in Chief.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Chief
  • Behave
  • Commander

• In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Day
  • Name

• It has often struck me with awe that some of the most deeply religious people I know have been, on the surface, atheists.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • People
  • Religious

• Those who would trade in their freedom For their protection deserve neither

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Freedom

• 'I frankly doubt that.''Ah. That is your privilege. But doubt doesn’t alter fact, sir.'

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Doubt

• I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Moment
  • New York
  • Library

• In Peter Ackroyd's book 'London: The Biography,' he describes the route of the medieval wall that enclosed the original city. Take the book and follow it from the Tower of London via the Barbican to Ludgate Hill. You experience the real history of London.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Book

• We have too many in Washington who are all too willing to just go along with the status quo and not make any waves.

  

  John Fleming
  • Waves

• Narcissism has existed for a long time; social media is just a new outlet to express it. Anybody who is going to record themselves and put that on the Internet, hoping people will watch, there is a degree to which that exists, yeah. I don't know if I would call myself a narcissist. I don't necessarily identify with that label.

  

  Tyler Oakley
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I am appalled by the notion of cultural wars.

  

  James A. Leach
  • Wars
  • Notion
  • Appalled

• Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.

  

  Kathryn Bigelow