Daniel Pipes Quotes

Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.

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• I'm always about, 'What is the most productive version of what I'm putting into the world?' Something that can be engaged by all folks. I don't have to change everyone.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • World
  • Change
  • Most

• I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • World
  • Done
  • Success

• Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Money
  • Problem
  • Painting

• If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Future

• I like to be left alone when I'm not working.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Alone
  • Like
  • Working

• Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Friends
  • Future
  • Past

• When I was sixteen I started acting, and I also started to embrace my tradition and culture. I had a young medicine man interpret for me what it is to be an Indian. He really caught me at a good time because I was really vulnerable after the loss of my parents with all of the feelings of abandonment.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Time
  • Good
  • Parents

• Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Money
  • Culture
  • Education

• For everyone, 'Star Wars' has been a part of their lives in some capacity. I remember watching it very early on with my cousins and my brother, and we were all cuddled around the VHS player, which sounds very old-fashioned, but that was the way then.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Remember
  • Player
  • Star

• In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Time
  • Power
  • Existence

• I want to be in 'Avatar'. I want somebody to hire me to be Superman, a Chinese Superman or Spider-Man.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Want
  • Superman
  • Hire

• I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.

  

  Larry David
  • Money
  • Kids
  • Guy

• The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Community
  • Year
  • Last

• On a film set, for me, there's so much more time to process what's going on than there is on a television set. There's more wiggle room to try things and fail and try again and get to the heart of what's going on in the scene, which is really fun for me. It's what I like to do.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Fun

• I'm young enough not to be a rival to Mr. Basescu.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Enough
  • Young
  • Rival

• I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Golf
  • Last

• When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Good
  • Character
  • Bad

• True net-heads sometimes resort to punctuation cartoons to get around the absence of inflection.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • True
  • Sometimes
  • Cartoons

• When I first experienced the millennial response to me, I had come out of a classified briefing, and I told the group of media individuals who were there that I didn't think James Comey had any credibility, and I threw up my hands and walked away - that went viral.

  

  Maxine Waters
  • Up

• A lot of the time when I'm working, I'm abroad.

  

  Asif Kapadia
  • Time

• To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Love
  • Spirit
  • Pity

• I am a better mother for having something in my life and not just my children.

  

  Katherine Heigl
  • Life
  • Children
  • Mother

• When you grow older a dreadful, horrible sensation will come over you. It's called loneliness, and you think you know what it is now, but you don't. Here is a list of the symptoms, and don't worry - loneliness is the most universal sensation on the planet. Just remember one fact - loneliness will pass. You will survive and you will be a better human for it.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Remember
  • Worry

• Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.

  

  Daniel Pipes