Bill Kurtis Quotes

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• My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Father
  • Game
  • Involved

• When I started acting, it was like a double identity crisis - your basic crisis, compounded by people saying, 'there goes Robards' kid, Bacall's kid.' Now I realize, sure, that gets your foot in the door, but once it's there, it's your foot. I'm not bothered anymore. I'm confident of my abilities.

  

  Sam Robards
  • People
  • Door
  • Identity

• Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • You
  • Culture
  • Conservative

• The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • People
  • Time
  • Freedom

• Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Earth
  • Food
  • Environment

• There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Myself
  • Learn
  • Criticism

• I could not disobey the will of the Catalan parliament.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Will
  • Parliament
  • Disobey

• I'm completely in love with the idea of love.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Love
  • Idea
  • Completely

• Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

  

  Quintilian
  • Late
  • Begin
  • Too Late

• There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Media
  • Now

• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • May
  • Value
  • Search

• I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Literature

• A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Past
  • Experiences
  • Pull

• In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Women
  • Confidence
  • Kindness

• The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Long
  • History
  • Sometimes

• I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Kids
  • Arts
  • Income

• When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Better
  • Hunting
  • Racing

• Revolt is the violence of an entire people; rebellion the unruliness of an individual or an uprising by a minority; both are spontaneous and blind. Revolution is both planned and spontaneous, a science and an art.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • People
  • Art
  • Science

• End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • World
  • Friends
  • True

• The best pleasures of this world are not quite true.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • World
  • True
  • Pleasures

• How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique.

  

  Edward Herrmann
  • Character
  • Action
  • Unique

• 'La Notte' is my favorite of the Antonioni pictures and my favorite work of the master cinematographer Gianni di Venanzo, who also shot '8 1/2' for Fellini.

  

  Jake Paltrow
  • Work

• I've been producing documentaries on global warming for 20 years and have seen the early warnings of extreme weather events come true.

  

  Bill Kurtis
  • True