Danny Elfman Quotes

So I've learned in the past, if a company approaches me and they want something like this, or something like that that I've done and I turn them down, they're going to do it anyhow.

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• I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

  

  Lara St. John
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• In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Help
  • Safety

• The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • World
  • Bad
  • Science

• I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.

  

  Lance Ito
  • Opportunity
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• We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
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  • Group
  • China

• I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • People
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• Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.

  

  Jack Horner
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  • Give
  • Potential

• We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Poetry
  • Guidance
  • Professor

• I think of all the guys that strap a gun on their backs and head to Afghanistan and Iraq to keep us free and safe and maintain what America has stood for.

  

  Foster Friess
  • America
  • Free
  • Gun

• North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • World
  • Country
  • Internet

• When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
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• In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.

  

  Yuji Horii
  • People
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• Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

  

  Lao Tzu
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  • Enlightenment

• One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there.

  

  Parker Stevenson
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• Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Anger
  • Loneliness
  • Insecurity

• The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.

  

  Garson Kanin
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Best

• The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Fashion
  • Always
  • Goal

• I am a showman by profession...and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.

  

  P. T. Barnum

• Truly wealthy people develop the habit of "getting rich slow" rather than "getting rich quick." To assure this, they have two rules with regard to money. Rule number one: Don't lose money. Rule number two: If ever you feel tempted, refer back to rule number one, "don't lose money."

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Money
  • Habit

• Think about Medusa, with the snakes. If you shoot a movie in Europe, the financiers are three snakes, and they all have opinions. In Hollywood there are, like, 20 snakes.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
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• Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
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• So I've learned in the past, if a company approaches me and they want something like this, or something like that that I've done and I turn them down, they're going to do it anyhow.

  

  Danny Elfman
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