Bill Conti Quotes

Making a living is not a career. It might be for an accountant, but it's not for someone who says "I want one thing." The guy who feels that his career hasn't happened yet. The guy who has that kind of hunger, who wants money and fame.

Bill Conti

• Money
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• Fame

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• I don't know what's with me and the 'of God' shows. It's hard to tweet about, because I guess 'God' triggers some kind of filter.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • God
  • Know
  • Me

• We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Would
  • Push
  • Probability

• Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • You
  • Understand

• As a brand, Ahla is one of Strauss-Elite's strongest. But we need to do a lot of marketing in order to regain market leadership. I have no doubt that we will do that, even if it takes time.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Time
  • Doubt
  • Leadership

• Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Doing
  • Because
  • Hospitality

• The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Always
  • Will
  • Act

• Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Feeling
  • Mean
  • Angry

• It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Without
  • Furniture
  • Imagery

• Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Things
  • Actor
  • Chef

• There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • American
  • Strong
  • Community

• You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Business
  • Faith
  • Law

• I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Work
  • City
  • Best

• It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Men
  • May
  • Control

• It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Hard

• Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're not doing something.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Want
  • Stop
  • Weird

• Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Why
  • Perception
  • Lawyer

• Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• A lot of film stars are just playing themselves in different frocks.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Different
  • Film
  • Stars

• No one reads my books until they're finished because I don't want feedback. It confuses me, and it changes things; if I get too much feedback, I get thrown off my path.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Books
  • Feedback
  • Confuses

• Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Great
  • Power
  • True

• You can always find stress in someone's life if you want to. You ask a few questions, and eventually, it's, 'Yes, I admit, I was worried about something recently.'

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Life
  • Stress
  • Questions

• Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Time
  • Money
  • Want

• Making a living is not a career. It might be for an accountant, but it's not for someone who says "I want one thing." The guy who feels that his career hasn't happened yet. The guy who has that kind of hunger, who wants money and fame.

  

  Bill Conti
  • Money
  • Career
  • Fame