Daniel Lyons Quotes

Nobody ever imagined how quickly the Android mobile-phone platform would take off - not even Andy Rubin, the Silicon Valley engineer who created it.

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• I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Like
  • Things
  • Repeat

• Look at Judi Dench, who's brilliant in whatever bloody job she does.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • She
  • Job
  • Look

• I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Think
  • Stop
  • Remorse

• I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Important
  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Respect
  • Decency

• My coldest days, my darkest days, ain't no sun out, all I got is my fans. They the only people I ride for. Believe it or not, if you're a real Fat Joe fan, a Terror Squad fan, I do it for ya'll.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Believe
  • Real

• The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Mistake

• Jesse McCartney is one of the nicest people around. I hate when I hear bad things about him, because anyone who knows him would agree that he's a good guy and really humble.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• The best rappers I know are, like, air-conditioner men.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Men
  • Know
  • Best

• My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Find
  • Try

• I make out a play list for every character and buy the records they would listen to; it helps me find their personas. What they play, where they stay, who they lay, is my matrix for character development.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Character
  • Play
  • Development

• Every decision that you make you have to be incredible congruent. It doesn't mean that you have to starve. If you need money, you do something that gives you money, that's normal.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Money
  • Mean
  • Decision

• I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • People
  • Light
  • Support

• Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Game
  • Baseball
  • Losing

• I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present in any given moment.

  

  K. Flay
  • Mind
  • Desire
  • Present

• Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces.

  

  Earl Browder
  • Society
  • Growth
  • Behind

• I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Up
  • Want
  • Ideas

• There are two ways in which a science develops; in response to problems which is itself creates, and in response to problems that are forced on it from the outside.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Science

• Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.

  

  Earl Warren
  • May
  • Silent
  • Presence

• I felt like there were two people inside me. I was trying to be somebody I was not, and I was frustrated that people didn't know who I was.

  

  Kaytranada
  • People
  • Trying

• I don't think a lot of people would spot the video-game influences in '10 Cloverfield Lane.' People think it's just a Hitchcockian mystery. And I was heavily influenced by Alfred Hitchcock, for sure. But for a generation prior to mine, that would be the sole influence. Since I grew up playing video games, I drew so much inspiration from that world.

  

  Dan Trachtenberg
  • Inspiration
  • Generation
  • Videogame

• It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.

  

  Nathanael Emmons
  • Learn
  • Everything
  • Anything

• With the rise of the reality show, everyone thinks they can be a celebrity, or that it would be a positive to be a celebrity, or that everyone who's in the news is a celebrity, and I think that there are a lot of people who don't choose to be on the front page, and yet they're still there.

  

  Brian McGinn
  • Celebrity
  • News
  • Reality Show

• Nobody ever imagined how quickly the Android mobile-phone platform would take off - not even Andy Rubin, the Silicon Valley engineer who created it.

  

  Daniel Lyons