Mark Boal Quotes

9/11, the wars and terrorism have affected all of us in different ways: people who lost family on 9/11, the people who lost family in the wars and people who lost family in various terrorist attacks that have occurred since.

Mark Boal

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• It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities.

  

  Tate Taylor
  • History
  • Eyes
  • Forget

• Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Society
  • Faith

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • House
  • Like
  • Disney

• When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Beginning
  • Poetry
  • Chance

• Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Order
  • Everyone
  • Capitalism

• Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.

  

  Nas
  • Want
  • Hip Hop
  • Forward

• Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • World
  • You
  • Sometimes

• I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Up
  • Always
  • Minutes

• As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing headbands and sweatbands, and whooping at people. It didn't quite work.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • People
  • Work
  • Crazy

• The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Health

• I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Vacation

• Those who live are those who fight.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Live
  • Fight
  • Those

• But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • History
  • Future
  • Change

• The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.

  

  Victor Francis Hess
  • May
  • Strong
  • Energy

• As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • America
  • Doubt
  • Socialism

• Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Country
  • Style
  • Vision

• When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Joy
  • Jump
  • Ground

• Immigration policy is a complicated issue. Or perhaps one should say immigration policies are complicated, since we have many different immigration laws and practices which interact in complex ways.

  

  Bill Kristol
  • Different
  • Immigration

• Last year I picked up the New York Times and there was a story about a kid from Dartmouth who was bragging that he never left his room, and made dates and ordered pizza with his computer. The piece de resistance of this story was that he had two roommates, and he was proud of the fact that he only talked to them by computer.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Proud

• 9/11, the wars and terrorism have affected all of us in different ways: people who lost family on 9/11, the people who lost family in the wars and people who lost family in various terrorist attacks that have occurred since.

  

  Mark Boal
  • People
  • Different
  • Family