Bill Toomey Quotes

Past Olympians have a continuing role within the Olympic family.

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• Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • You
  • Film
  • Risk

• It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Different
  • Me

• Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity. As opposed to many of its contemporary counterparts, Dune'is not so much focused on the styling of that activity, as on the supporting of it.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Human
  • Create
  • Activity

• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Service
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Time
  • Kids

• My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Dad

• Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Friends
  • Existence
  • Second

• I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Believe
  • Human
  • Human Beings

• I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Perfectly
  • Symmetrical

• The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of data without having any authority to dictate it.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Interesting
  • Humanity
  • Data

• Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Story
  • Understand
  • Army

• It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Faith
  • Emotions
  • Negative

• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • House
  • Religious

• There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope.

  

  Zoketsu Norman Fischer
  • Time
  • World
  • Different

• The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Science
  • Funny
  • New

• What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Relationship
  • Say
  • Manager

• I write a lot about other people, like family and friends. I look at their lives and relationships and think, 'Well, if I was in your position, this is how I would see it.'

  

  Dionne Bromfield
  • People
  • Family
  • Friends

• We not only heard it before 20 years ago, before George Bush in 2001 passed his tax relief, before in 2003 the tax relief were past, we were told they were dead. Before we provided prescription drugs for Medicare, we were told it wasn't going to happen.

  

  Ken Mehlman
  • Past

• I probably write 10 things to every one that I want to use. It's easy for me to write something that's so poppy that it's wrong for me. If I was 22 years old... it's easy for me to write something that's less mature than I am or ought to be. I'm looking for something that acts my age.

  

  Alex Chilton Big Star
  • Age
  • Write
  • Use

• I found this really fantastic used record store in Japan, and I bought all these different records and different 45s, and one of the 45s was just, it had the theme, "Green Leaves of Summer," the theme to "The Alamo" on one side, and then on the flip side was a theme to, the theme to "The Magnificent Seven."

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Different
  • Summer
  • Green

• You say your life's a bum deal 'n yer up against the wall. Well, people, you ain't even got no deal at all. 'Cause what they do in Washington. They just takes care of Number One. An' Number One ain't you. You ain't even Number Two!

  

  Frank Zappa
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Past Olympians have a continuing role within the Olympic family.

  

  Bill Toomey
  • Family
  • Past