Bill Paxton Quotes
There's something about being at the tournaments that you don't really get on TV, although golf is a great sport to watch on television.
Quotes to Explore
-
The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
-
The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
-
It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
-
I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
-
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
-
I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
-
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
-
I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
-
Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
-
I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
-
I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
-
I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
-
The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
-
If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
-
My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!
-
My mother's a... beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.
-
I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
-
In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.
-
I long had a goal of becoming president of a company. But it was not till I was 57 years old that I became president of Cisco Systems with its 34 employees. Life offers opportunity at every stage.
-
Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship.
-
Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.
-
In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing.
-
You can tell a person's morale from their Twitter feed. I like that; it's so honest. And I like being able to follow people who I respect and admire, and the possibility of them seeing my comment about them.
-
There's something about being at the tournaments that you don't really get on TV, although golf is a great sport to watch on television.
