Bill Pullman Quotes

I don't like this instinct of reality television to wear your lifestyle in public. I've really always loved the anonymity of things.

Bill Pullman

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• The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Bad
  • Respect
  • Government

• To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.

  

  Mainbocher
  • Woman
  • Thoughts
  • Well

• A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Up
  • Like
  • Religion

• I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Best
  • Imagination
  • Effort

• Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'

  

  Saint Basil
  • Long
  • May
  • Fear

• I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Change
  • Stop
  • Air

• But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Live
  • Creation
  • Gymnastics

• I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • True
  • Help
  • Military

• Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • American
  • Name

• I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be so rushed. Relationships just bounced around like crazy in high school! And now, I never want to rush anything. I just want to enjoy all of the steps.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • School
  • High
  • Crazy

• I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • World
  • Like
  • Place

• All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Mind
  • Blood
  • Begin

• Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Progress
  • Healthy
  • Prelude

• I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Guy

• Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Today
  • Media
  • Sheep

• Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

• I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm beside a star at a fitting, and she looks into the mirror, I don't want to be competing in any way.

  

  Edith Head
  • Good
  • She
  • Black

• I've worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.

  

  David Cunliffe

• People notice peacemakers because they dress funny. We know how the people who make war dress - in uniforms and medals, or in computers and clipboards, or in absoluteness, severity, greed, and cynicism. But the peacemaker is dressed in righteousness, justice, and faithfulness - dressed for the work that is to be done.

  

  Walter Brueggemann
  • Funny
  • Justice
  • Dress

• When you describe a character's dream, it has to be sharper than reality in some way and more meaningful. It has to somehow speak to plot, character, and all the rest.

  

  Jeff Vandermeer
  • Character
  • Dream
  • Reality

• Zen, like life, defies exact definition, but its essence is the experience, moment by moment, of our own existence -- a natural, spontaneous encounter, unclouded by the suppositions and expectations that come between us and reality. It is, if you like, a paring down of life until we see it as it really is, free from our illusions; it is merely a divestment of ourselves until we recognize our own true nature.

  

  David Fontana
  • Reality
  • Moments
  • Expectations

• I don't like this instinct of reality television to wear your lifestyle in public. I've really always loved the anonymity of things.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Reality