Chris Meledandri Quotes

Owning pets is as close to a universal phenomenon as, I think, anything.

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• People say never work with children and animals. I actually like working with Oliver Bell, and working with a rat really opens possibilities to you because you don't know how it's going to be. It's just a rat, so you can just react to this rat being a rat, if that makes sense.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • People
  • Work
  • Children

• My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Mind
  • Business
  • Creative

• When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Government

• If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.

  

  Candice Millard
  • Writing
  • Truth
  • Challenge

• In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • War
  • Army
  • Egypt

• That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don't fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • America
  • Together

• Being veterans of the struggle to push back against fundamentalist Christians, American liberals are well acquainted with the pitfalls of the neoconservative flirtation with the religious-right.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • American
  • Religious
  • Struggle

• Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

  

  Vicki Baum
  • Success
  • Cold
  • Lonely

• I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • World
  • Man

• Space has always been confusing to politics.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Space
  • Politics
  • Confusing

• Things happen. And good things happen, and bad things happen. And I'm a person - I'm a believer that everything happens for a reason.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Good Things

• In a foreign country and with foreign species of life one should take measures to find out whether things will be keeping their value when dead. To settlers I give this advice: 'For the sake of your eyes and hearts, shoot not the Iguana.'

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Life
  • Country
  • Eyes

• Perhaps the biggest appreciation adjustment we need is toward the millions of men and women we call stepparents. We have taken for granted especially the stepparents who are raising no children of their own, and receiving no income from a significant other, but who have nevertheless chosen to invest love, time and money in children.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• 'How do they feel about demons off in Atur?' he asked.'Scared.' My father tapped his temple. 'All that religion makes their brains soft.'

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Father

• I ain't good looking And my hair ain't curls But my mother she give me something It's going to carry me through this world.

  

  Eleanora Fagan
  • World
  • Good
  • She

• It hurt me deeply, this reputation as tough, hard, mean.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • Hurt

• No matter how heinous someone's behaviour, if you make them a comic character, you can't expect people to hate them.

  

  Chris Morris
  • People
  • Character
  • Hate

• Interestingly that some of the characters did not turn out the way Jim and Allen had envisioned them.

  

  Mary Tyler Moore

• Angela [Merkel] and I also agreed the need for a comprehensive and humane response to the devastating humanitarian crisis in Syria and for the influx of migrants and refugees from around the world. We need to build on the progress achieved at the U.N. Refugee Summit, which yielded new commitments from some 50 nations and organizations.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Progress
  • Organization

• I know you have a heavy heart, I can feel it when we kissSo many men stronger than meHave thrown their backs out trying to lift itBut me I'm not a gambleYou can count on me to splitThe love I sell you in the evening by the morning won't exist.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Men
  • Trying
  • Heart

• A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Comforts
  • Little Thing
  • Afflicts

• I yearn for things, but at the same time I am just peaceful.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Things
  • Peaceful
  • Same Time

• Toward the One, the perfection of love, harmony and beauty, the only being, united with all the illuminated souls who form the embodiment of the master, the spirit of guidance.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Love
  • Harmony
  • Perfection

• Owning pets is as close to a universal phenomenon as, I think, anything.

  

  Chris Meledandri