Chris Bell Quotes

I would love it if every talk show let me say whatever I pleased.

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• Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Real
  • Quality

• When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.

  

  Candice Patton
  • Time
  • Character
  • You

• I dream about doing a film about once a week.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Dream
  • Doing
  • Week

• As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Look

• India absorbs things; India's not a divisive place.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Things
  • Place
  • India

• Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Live
  • Want
  • Uncomfortable

• Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Joy
  • Laughter
  • Strange

• A lot of the songs are based on my previous relationship. It didn't work out. I lost him, and it ruined me. I had to learn to get back on my feet. I used that heartbreak to create something really beautiful.

  

  Yuna
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • Relationship

• I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on his watch. If he had done what any moral human being should have done in the beginning, and put out alarms, then a lot fewer people would have gotten sick.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • People
  • Done
  • Control

• When you're 8 years old, and you've become subconsciously familiar with the layout and design of Black Sparrow books, and you know the difference between Miles Davis and John Coltrane, something is bound to stick.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Black
  • Know
  • Design

• When I'm directing films, I mostly try to create an environment on set that mimics what's in my mind as to the tone and feel of things. I try to create a place where you feel that anything's possible.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Mind
  • Environment
  • Try

• When I'm sleeping, if it gets in my face, sometimes it'll wake me up.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Sometimes
  • Face
  • Sleeping

• There is talk that badminton may not make it as a sport in the 2020 Olympics. We must bear in mind that other sports are strongly lobbying to be included.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • Mind
  • May
  • Sports

• I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Been
  • Poets
  • Influenced

• The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Expensive
  • Too
  • Paperback

• Style of the future is the convergence of function and fashion.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Future
  • Fashion
  • Style

• I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• 'Close To The Edge,' we actually had played it from beginning to end before we recorded it in the studio. So we knew how long it was, and we knew it would fit on the album fine, so we didn't do any editing.

  

  Chris Squire Yes
  • Long
  • Beginning

• One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • True
  • Kind
  • Wise

• No one tries to cry. You try not to cry. No one tries to laugh. You try not to laugh.

  

  Martin Landau

• Women are now more aggressive than men! And I don't put them down for it. I think it's great. My attitude with sex with any woman I've ever been with is, I want you to be exactly who you want to be behind closed doors. Don't ever hold back with me.

  

  Andrew Dice Clay
  • Women
  • Attitude
  • Doors

• I would love it if every talk show let me say whatever I pleased.

  

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