David Cronenberg Quotes

You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved.

David Cronenberg

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• Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Technology
  • Government

• I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Family
  • Queen
  • Fabulous

• I remember the moment I first became aware of aging. I was 30. I looked down at my knees, and the skin above them had become a little loose. And I thought, 'And so it begins!'

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Remember
  • Thought
  • Moment

• Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Will

• Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I'm excited to be a part of the new direction the Barbie brand is headed, specifically how they are celebrating diversity in the line and encouraging kids to raise their voices.

  

  Zendaya
  • Kids
  • New
  • Diversity

• You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the same, anywhere. Everybody is a hero or a dramatic person in their own story if you just know where to look.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Yourself
  • Hero

• I feel more Jewish than I do Iranian.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Feel
  • More
  • Jewish

• The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • World
  • Great
  • Man

• The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • World
  • Important
  • Friends

• I love... different kinds of music. I like classical music and pop music. I like alternative, and I like rap, hip-hop, and I kind of collected all these things that I love, and they infused my sensibilities, and I just wanted to sing because it felt like it needed to come out of me.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Like
  • Classical

• Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • You
  • Someone
  • Again

• I'm going into politics because I think that the kind of discourse taking place in Israel is leading this country to oblivion, and I want to change it.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Country
  • Think
  • Change

• The whole Land of Israel is a single bloc. There are those who say we can build inside the settlement blocs, and others who say we may not be able to hold onto the towns outside the blocs. I have come to tell you what the Arabs already know - that the Land of Israel is one bloc.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • May
  • Know
  • Single

• I think Hollywood has seen what fandom can do for a project. You can definitely see that when you go to Comic-con.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Think
  • You
  • Hollywood

• Was I in a nativity play? I think I was an angel; I was a very blonde child, so I tended to get typecast. I have a vague memory of wearing wings.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Child
  • Memory
  • Angel

• If Obama's enormous symbolic power draws primarily from being the country's first black president, it also draws from his membership in hip-hop's foundational generation.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Power
  • Black

• Common man, no matter how hard life is to him, at least has the fortune of not thinking it.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Thinking

• I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it?

  

  Anne Bancroft

• For charity purposes, how do I help? A lot of prospective levers and tools have come into my life.

  

  Eduardo Saverin
  • Life
  • Help
  • Charity

• I believe that all marijuana is medical.

  

  Tommy Chong
  • Medical
  • Marijuana

• My genre-hopping has caused problems with marketing and sales departments over the years, because they need to know where to position a book with the booksellers.

  

  F. Paul Wilson
  • Book
  • Marketing
  • Sales

• You're seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved.

  

  David Cronenberg