F. Lee Bailey Quotes
There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out of town for a couple of months and play with toys.
Quotes to Explore
-
I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
-
For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.
-
The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
-
During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
-
When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.
-
Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.
-
I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
-
The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.
-
I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
-
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
-
You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
-
I'm not as tech savvy as some YouTubers, but I'm a lot better than my grandparents. Whenever I have a technical question, or something isn't working, I ask Google, and that usually throws up the answer.
-
You need to understand the batsman, where he plays his shot usually, which is his release shot, and then change the angle, vary the pace, line and length. You cannot always react after being at the receiving end.
-
My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
-
It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
-
I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
-
I do not like violence.
-
We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
-
When I was little, I would close my eyes and put my finger on a page. Then in my mind, I would go to that place.
-
Post-human intelligence will develop hypercomputers with the processing power to simulate living things - even entire worlds. Perhaps advanced beings could use hypercomputers to surpass the best 'special effects' in movies or computer games so vastly that they could simulate a world, fully, as complex as the one we perceive ourselves to be in.
-
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
-
The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.
-
Having translated two plays by Chekhov, and not speaking Russian myself - I cannot say one sentence. This may shock people... However, I am not shocked, as it is not hard to find out what the words mean.
-
There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out of town for a couple of months and play with toys.
