David Cronenberg Quotes

All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.

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• The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Men
  • History
  • New

• For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Me
  • Perfect
  • Play

• Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide presence but have the head office jobs, the head office managers and head office employees in your local economy are important from a job creation and wealth creation point of view.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Important
  • Job
  • Wealth

• In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.

  

  Orson Welles
  • America
  • Man
  • Bond

• No decent career was ever founded on a public.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Career
  • Ever
  • Decent

• I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • College
  • Everything
  • Quit

• I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Action
  • Kind
  • Looking

• Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Life
  • Work
  • You

• More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Me
  • Wish
  • Manager

• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Challenge
  • Acting
  • Loved

• I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Community
  • Problems

• The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Free
  • Stop
  • Process

• To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Creation
  • Step
  • Destroy

• I made nothing happen very slowly.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Nothing
  • Very
  • Happen

• I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.

  

  Ted Williams
  • You
  • Need
  • Hit

• I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Technology

• Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.

  

  Edmund White
  • Me
  • Alone
  • Problem

• What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Art
  • Decisions
  • Invite

• Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary, they have babies at such a young age precisely because they are poor--because they do not have the opportunity to acquire an education, because meaningful, well-paying jobs and creative forms of recreation are not accessible to them ... because safe, effective forms of contraception are not available to them.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Age
  • Black
  • Opportunity

• I could cut my leg of; I could cut my arm off. I could gouge my eye out - I'd still probably survive, but not very well, and that's what we're doing to the ocean. It's the life support system of this planet. We've been dumping in it, we've been polluting it, we've been destroying it for decades, and we're essentially maiming ourselves.

  

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
  • Life
  • Support
  • Ocean

• Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.

  

  Demosthenes
  • War
  • Anxiety

• Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Money
  • Want
  • Management

• To love the world is to be afflicted.

  

  Yunus Emre
  • World
  • Love
  • For Her

• All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.

  

  David Cronenberg
  • Life
  • True