Dan Trachtenberg Quotes

Life is a very scary thing because it's unknown. Anything can happen anytime, and that is terrifying for all of us: to not to be in control.

Dan Trachtenberg

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• This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Creative
  • Opportunities

• Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Long
  • Focus
  • Decisions

• 'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Best

• There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Problem
  • Fans
  • Economics

• You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Up
  • Light
  • Control

• I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.

  

  Halsey
  • Single
  • Doing
  • Gold

• When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Best
  • Actor
  • Go

• I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're not even on the same playing field.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Game
  • Same
  • Say

• In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Different
  • Night
  • City

• I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I've fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.

  

  Nanette Lepore
  • Look
  • Part
  • Fabulous

• If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • Love
  • Always
  • Stage

• Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Golf

• During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Money
  • War
  • Political

• When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Death
  • Myself
  • Always

• A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Me
  • Marriage

• Despotism is a long crime.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Long
  • Crime
  • Despotism

• I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.

  

  Young Thug
  • Ghetto
  • Then
  • Mansions

• Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Duty
  • Impact
  • Beyond

• The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Discovery
  • Personal

• I believe in possibility, but I'm not sure I believe in demons.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter
  • Believe

• There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Getting older is baggage for so many people but I don't spend time on things I can't control. Wrinkles don't scare me; they're a part of life, and I will and do embrace them, but I look at surgery, and that scares me.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Children
  • Together

• Life is a very scary thing because it's unknown. Anything can happen anytime, and that is terrifying for all of us: to not to be in control.

  

  Dan Trachtenberg
  • Life
  • Control
  • Scary