Bill Mumy Quotes

I bugged my mom and dad to 'get me inside the television set' when I was about four years old.

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• I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • American
  • Woman

• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Think

• I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Years

• And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.

  

  Inge de Bruijn
  • Mean
  • Never
  • Doubt

• I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Want
  • Shoes
  • Champagne

• A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Society
  • Support
  • Now

• I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Passion
  • Couple
  • Need

• I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Try
  • I Can
  • Ignorant

• There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Vulnerability
  • U.S.
  • Monsters

• My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Great
  • Heaven
  • Idea

• The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • See
  • Safety
  • Research

• All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Know
  • Nothing
  • Touch

• After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
  • Society
  • Rest

• I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • World
  • Woman
  • Gold

• You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Time
  • You
  • Play

• I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• To think that guys who grew up in the '60s would make a miniseries supporting the idea that Oswald acted alone is something I certainly wouldn't have predicted. But time and evidence can change the way we view things.

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Change

• The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Problem
  • Jerusalem
  • Grandeur

• I've always had an interest in broadcast journalism and the law. So it's nice that I can combine the two.

  

  Kimberly Guilfoyle
  • Law
  • Nice

• My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a strict disciplinarian. He kind of laid down the law.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Law
  • Me
  • Dad

• My dad was very much a struggling actor and spent more of his life as a postman, as a member of a tarmac firm, as a van driver.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Dad
  • More

• Music has always been in my family down to my dad through my uncle. I'm just the next generation, since it's always been around me when I was younger when I looked up to my mom and dad, to Michael Jackson, and B2K was my favorite band growing up.

  

  Jacob Latimore
  • Up
  • Music
  • Family

• My mom was born in Korea - Seoul, Korea, during the '50s, '51. She was abandoned; her and my uncle were abandoned. My grandfather was a Seabee and adopted my mom and my uncle, and brought them to Compton in the '50s. That's where she was raised.

  

  Anderson Paak
  • She
  • Mom
  • Uncle

• I bugged my mom and dad to 'get me inside the television set' when I was about four years old.

  

  Bill Mumy
  • Dad
  • Mom