Danny Boyle Quotes

You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.

Danny Boyle

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• I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Human
  • Liberty
  • Sense

• The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Different
  • Book

• There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.

  

  Magnus Magnusson
  • Better
  • Walks
  • Exercises

• Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attitude
  • Excellence
  • Skill

• I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Support

• When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Attention
  • Say
  • Everyone

• By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • World
  • Important
  • Why

• Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • World
  • You
  • Sometimes

• As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Long
  • Think
  • Feet

• I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Better
  • Loss
  • Getting Better

• I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Know
  • Ends
  • Deny

• Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Information
  • Charge
  • Flow

• The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Joy
  • Winning
  • Win

• One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.

  

  Yael Stone
  • World
  • American
  • Culture

• I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Good
  • Business
  • Sound

• Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Pressure
  • Singer
  • Yes

• She was not a person who would allow the system to dictate her life.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Life
  • She

• There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Life
  • God
  • Secret

• I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • People
  • Guy
  • Me

• You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.

  

  Danny Boyle
  • Life