Daniel Humm Quotes

I try to run so I can eat anything I want. I feel it's a luxury to be able to splurge on something like foie gras and not have to think about it.

Daniel Humm

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• I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Time
  • Character
  • Think

• In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Life
  • Great
  • Ideas

• I have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • High
  • Want
  • Myself

• I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Work
  • Family
  • Money

• Dining with a married couple can be uncomfortable.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Couple
  • Married
  • Uncomfortable

• I'm putting myself out there in a way I don't know if I ever have before.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Way
  • Know
  • Myself

• If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • May
  • Think
  • Lose

• Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Nature
  • Clarity
  • Uncertainty

• I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Movie
  • Play
  • Taken

• I would never try and do a remake off a movie. I think that's a whole different thing. I think everyone will always remember the first movie, and they will always compare it with the second one.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Different
  • Remember
  • Movie

• Encourage aspiring writers to continue writing when things are going against them, when it feels hard. Explain the typical obstacles that occur, and encourage and reassure them to continue, never to give up.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Give

• Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that. My true gold medal, though, is my daughter, Karsen, who is 18 months old. And I have a wonderful husband, Mike.

  Gail Devers
  • Believe
  • True
  • Proud

• My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world, 'Donna Reed' and all that. I longed for that, I wanted to be like other normal families on TV.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • World
  • Believe
  • Support

• I had always choreographed a little, beginning in high school. And I leaned toward choreography. I always had an overview of what was going on.

  

  Patricia Birch
  • School
  • High
  • Beginning

• Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Moral

• I went to the Talladega 500 with a girl I had just met. She was very sweet with childlike qualities. No titties! (p. 113).

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • She
  • Girl
  • Sweet

• Presence of death standing by makes a sacrament of tenuous relationships.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Death

• Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

  

  Sean O'Casey
  • Chance
  • Poverty
  • Rich

• You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Guy
  • Inspiration
  • Create

• I think America just needs to get real when it comes to the way our kids speak and communicate. They need to understand what happens in rap.

  

  Kanye West
  • Real
  • Kids
  • America

• Without [hope and] confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out; intolerance may become tolerant, and hate be changed into love; ideas may be quickened, intelligence widened, and men's hearts may be ennobled; but from pessimism which can see nothing but gloomy visions nothing is to be expected.

  

  Klas Pontus Arnoldson
  • Men
  • Heart
  • May

• The lucid dream, located as it is at a crossroads between worlds and states of consciousness, places the magician in a unique position to influence the delicate balance of consciousness and the interplay it has on matter in the waking state, and is thus an opportunity to test one's ability in the art of adjusting the mutable fabric of Maya.

  

  Zeena Schreck
  • Art
  • Dream
  • Opportunity

• I try to run so I can eat anything I want. I feel it's a luxury to be able to splurge on something like foie gras and not have to think about it.

  

  Daniel Humm