Chris Lilley Quotes

I find myself believing everything that journalists tell me.

Chris Lilley

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• I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Never
  • Feel
  • Movies

• The historian is a prophet looking backward.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Looking
  • Prophet
  • Backward

• There is no better high than discovery.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • High
  • Better
  • Discovery

• So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had dreams and they didn't allow anybody to take away their dreams.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • World
  • She
  • Think

• I want people to remember me as a guy who works hard.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Remember
  • Guy

• I had planned to spend my 40s continuing my public service and starting a family. I thought that by fighting for the people I cared about and loving those close to me, I could leave the world a better place.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • People
  • World
  • Family

• The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Learning should be engaging. Testing should not be the be all and end all. All students should have a broad curriculum that includes the arts and enrichment. Students should have opportunities to work in teams and engage in project-based learning. And student and family well-being should be front and center.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Work
  • Family
  • Learning

• As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Love
  • History
  • Violence

• I love to read books by women I look up to who are smart, funny, and interesting, like Tina Fey's 'Bossypants' and Mindy Kaling's 'Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?'

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Up
  • Women
  • Love

• The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • America
  • Enemy
  • Segregation

• Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Character
  • Brain
  • Feel

• I am flattered that they think that many people would enjoy my work. I don't approach any genre a different way than I may approach another one. I treat every role I do like a role worthy of applying whatever kind of tactic, process and talent I have.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• It is my desire to break the destructive generational cycle of illiteracy in the home by focusing on the children. Reading to your child has so much value as a parent because it opens the lines of communication.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Children
  • Home
  • Reading

• A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Women
  • Friends

• One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Up
  • Live
  • Man

• Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Wish
  • Question

• Nicht das Bewußtsein bestimmt das Leben, sondern das Leben bestimmt das Bewußtsein.

  

  Karl Marx

• Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Done
  • America
  • Wife

• My father was the nurturing one, the one who always made sure my sister and I ate properly and that our hair was brushed... He really took care of the logistics of our upbringing.

  

  Kenza Fourati
  • Father
  • Hair
  • Sister

• Life is but a river. It has no beginning, no middle, no end. All we are, all we are worth, is what we do while we float upon it — how we treat our fellow man.

  

  Alan Gratz
  • Life
  • River
  • We Are

• Now, if most Americans want to go out and buy a car, they don't say, you know, 'I think I'll call the chairman of the board of Ford Motor Company and see what kind of deal we can make here.'

  

  Jeb Hensarling
  • Car

• I find myself believing everything that journalists tell me.

  

  Chris Lilley