Neill Blomkamp Quotes

What I do is spend too much time thinking. Most of the time I just walk around annoyed. Would I describe myself as relatively happy, I suppose, but society gets to me. And the people that have mastered life seem to not care, and then they die, and then the grenade goes off.

Neill Blomkamp

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• Time
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• I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Popular

• If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Life
  • Music
  • Help

• More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Time
  • Long
  • Drug

• For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Long
  • Book
  • Favorite

• A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Thought
  • Invisible

• There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Time
  • Great
  • Financial

• The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Evolution
  • Theory
  • Mental

• Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Game
  • You
  • Sometimes

• My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Up
  • Great
  • Long

• I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Think
  • Curious

• The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Remember
  • Relationship
  • Teacher

• I take my work seriously.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Work
  • Take
  • Seriously

• Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • World
  • Think
  • Problems

• I believe that it's better to have a conviction, believe strongly in something, and then the convictions create a style that reflects your mentality.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Believe
  • Style
  • Better

• President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • People
  • Great
  • Help

• Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Work
  • She
  • Woman

• I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Work
  • Opportunities

• Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Life
  • She
  • Photography

• When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Good
  • Character
  • Myself

• Fifth Harmony is an entity or identity outside all of us, and I don't think anybody felt individually represented by the sound - we didn't make it.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Think
  • Identity
  • Harmony

• But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.

  

  Michael W. Smith
  • God

• The man who raised me is black. Culturally, he made me who I am. He was a theatre director, so he also guided me artistically.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Man
  • Black
  • Theatre

• ou know, if you want to see jackbooting Nazis in movies, you've got to watch American movies made at that time.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • American

• What I do is spend too much time thinking. Most of the time I just walk around annoyed. Would I describe myself as relatively happy, I suppose, but society gets to me. And the people that have mastered life seem to not care, and then they die, and then the grenade goes off.

  

  Neill Blomkamp
  • People
  • Life
  • Time