David O. Russell Quotes

When most people turn on their TVs, they don't expect a frank discussion of philosophical ideas in their practical context. Or any context.

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• Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • Time
  • Great
  • American

• Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Power
  • Man
  • Moral

• Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Life
  • Love
  • Happy

• Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Kind

• The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Idea
  • Memory
  • Eternity

• All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Free
  • Support
  • Innovation

• Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.

  

  Dan Gable
  • People
  • Different
  • May

• He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Touch
  • Starts
  • Straw

• I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Music
  • Think
  • Want

• I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Writing
  • Attention
  • Explore

• I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.

  

  Randy Weber
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Family

• I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Try

• There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Doing

• Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Up
  • Music
  • Kids

• Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Know
  • Speak
  • Facts

• Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.

  

  Vida Blue
  • Baseball
  • Stomach
  • Charlie

• I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Time
  • Three
  • Take

• It's a wonderful day for me, I made it to 80.

  

  Patty Berg

• Most students of nature sooner or later pass through a process of writing off a large percentage of their supposed capital of knowledge as a merely illusory asset. As we trace more accurately certain familiar sequences of phenomena we begin to realize how closely these sequences, or laws , as we call them, are hemmed round by still other laws of which we can form no notion. With myself this writing off of illusory assets has gone rather far and the cobweb of supposed knowledge has been pinched (as some one has phrased) into a particularly small pill.

  

  William Crookes
  • Writing
  • Certain
  • Realizing

• I call Algonquin Books 'the gods and goddesses of publishing.' Not only did they give me a career, they care deeply about every writer in their flock.

  

  Caroline Leavitt
  • Career

• I'm sure, to many people, my life is not that exciting, but to me every day is an adventure.

  

  Angela Kinsey
  • People
  • Life
  • Adventure

• That's my people. That's the way that our fans react. For us, that's normal. I know over here, it's not typical.

  

  Bobby Abreu
  • People
  • Fans
  • React

• When most people turn on their TVs, they don't expect a frank discussion of philosophical ideas in their practical context. Or any context.

  

  David O. Russell
  • People
  • Philosophical
  • Discussion