Kathryn Bigelow Quotes

I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.

Kathryn Bigelow

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• I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Success
  • Democracy

• Fame is a very strange animal.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Animal
  • Strange
  • Fame

• I don't know, if somebody doesn't tell me how would I know?

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Know
  • Me
  • Tell

• I guess the headline is that you mustn't tough it out assuming it's 'normal' to feel incredible pain when you're preggo or post-partum, or be afraid to try a new specialist or a new kind of specialist if you have pain that isn't getting any better.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Pain
  • Better
  • New

• You earn the respect of your peers that you play against, and they don't trash talk you.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Respect
  • Play
  • Talk

• We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Person
  • Hearts
  • Empty

• I wrote and finished the script for 'Man in the Middle' two weeks after the September 11 bombing. It's a very American film about an ex-diplomat based in the Middle East, a leader in the U.S. administration who now sells used cars in the Middle East.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • American
  • Man
  • Leader

• I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• It takes less land to grow a pound of broccoli than it does a pound of beef. Less land to grow a pound of grain than a pound of beef. Less water, less energy.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Energy
  • Water
  • Grow

• Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you know.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • You
  • Know
  • Play

• Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Victory

• For this last savior, man,I have lied as I lie now. But what is lying? Men wash their hands in blood, as best they can:I find no fault in this just man.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Men

• When a man becomes steadfast in his abstention from harming others, then all living creatures will cease to feel enmity in his presence

  

  Patanjali

• Suppose we took a thousand negatives and made a gigantic montage: a myriad-faceted picture containing the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the power, the irony, the strength, the decay, the past, the present, the future of a city – that would be my favorite picture.

  

  Berenice Abbott
  • Power
  • Future
  • Past

• I would adopt a standpoint, irrespective of whether someone was for or against it, if I felt deeply that it was right for the movement.

  

  Alfred Rosenberg

• The very first words that we, the American nation, spoke were right here in Philadelphia. You know those words: 'We the people.' It wasn't, 'We the conglomerates.' It wasn't, 'We the corporations.' It was, 'We the people.'

  

  Al Gore
  • People
  • American
  • Words

• I used to carry a copy of Ulysses with me everywhere just in case I was knocked down by a bus. It seemed more important than having clean underwear.

  

  Craig Raine
  • Important

• I knew that Trump was ghastly. I knew I'd vote for Hillary if I had a vote.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Trump

• In science, you really do need to have a purpose-driven life. You will succeed to the extent that you get the most out of your career so that you can give the most back. Try to be an addict, driven to achieve discoveries, learning new things, and then writing about them.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Career

• We are so blessed that we've had so many great songs that fans have turned into big hits for us.

  

  Howard Dwaine Dorough The Backstreet Boys
  • Blessed
  • Hits
  • Great Songs

• It really surprises me that people in this day and age still write such busy music and fill up every space with layer upon layer of sound... it's like musical landfill.

  

  James Blake
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.

  

  Kathryn Bigelow