Danny Elfman Quotes

You're allowed to rip-off another score so close that it's ridiculous. In my opinion it's ridiculous, how closely one can just rip-off a score that happened a year or two earlier.

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• It's one thing to have forced time off as an actor, and another thing when you actually say, 'I don't want to read anything, and I don't want to talk to anybody.'

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Want
  • Actor

• Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Song
  • Hate
  • Half

• Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.

  

  W. Daniel Hillis
  • History
  • You
  • Medical

• Let us have peace.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Peace
  • U.S.
  • Let Us

• You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Done
  • Understand
  • Appreciate

• I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Control
  • Problem

• I've never had an audition like that before. They don't let you know about anything on 'Mad Men,' because it's a spoiler for everybody. I thought I was on the right track when I was cracking everybody up.

  

  Randee Heller
  • Up
  • Men
  • Know

• Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Character
  • Hair
  • Warrior

• I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Culture
  • Stop

• In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Old
  • Answer
  • Affirmative

• The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Alone
  • Government
  • Progress

• I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.

  

  Aamir Khan
  • People
  • Happy
  • Entertained

• Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Children

• The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Magic
  • First
  • Broadway

• What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that are understood without the need for any help from elite writers or thinkers.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Help
  • Freedom
  • Words

• Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Man
  • Myself
  • Window

• Yes, I've been in an igloo. They're surprisingly cozy and warm - small, though, you can't really stand up in some.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Up
  • Small
  • Stand

• The Democrats' drive to defeat Neil Gorsuch is the latest battle in a 50-year war for control of the Supreme Court - a war that began with a conspiracy against Richard Nixon by Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justice Abe Fortas and Lyndon Johnson.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Control
  • Justice

• From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals to understand that they might provide a relatively simple entry into a problem as complex as cancer.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Reading
  • Problem
  • Simple

• With the theatre, your whole day is geared towards the evening's show, and that's the job. People usually go to work about 9 and come home around 5, or maybe 7.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • People
  • Work
  • Home

• There is nothing more fundamental for public workers to know if they are going to be partly laid off.

  

  Eduardo Bhatia

• I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space to live or create, and they were bucking all kinds of spoken and unspoken rules.

  

  Anne Roiphe
  • Live
  • Society
  • Space

• You're in the game of life to fight. If you're in business, and you're not aggressively building, you shouldn't be in.

  

  Jon Huntsman, Sr.
  • Life
  • Business
  • Game

• You're allowed to rip-off another score so close that it's ridiculous. In my opinion it's ridiculous, how closely one can just rip-off a score that happened a year or two earlier.

  

  Danny Elfman
  • Opinion
  • Rip