David O. Russell Quotes

It's not easy to follow Jesus' example, and if you go to church it doesn't mean you're automatically doing it.

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• A new idea - whether it's a way to collect solar energy more efficiently or a cheaper way to desalinate sea water or a new seed to boost the amount of food we can grow - can stretch the physical resources we have, or even multiply them. And the ideas themselves don't ever wear out.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Water

• I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Different
  • Me
  • Influence

• Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Morality
  • Truth Is

• A few years ago, I found out that there's a lot of Gypsy blood on my mother's side. I'm wild in that way - I've been brought up to do my own thing.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Blood

• In 'Haraamkhor,' I have explored a few things which I wouldn't have been able to do in bigger films. The process of shooting this film was so organic that it enhanced me as an actor and an artiste.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Actor
  • Process
  • Films

• Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Government
  • Corruption
  • Test

• You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Home
  • Sunset
  • Sunrise

• I was always very academically focused when I was growing up, and music was something for which I really had no preconceptions or expectations for myself or really any rules. It kind of represented, at least for me, a divergent path of creativity and self-discovery.

  

  K. Flay
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Time
  • Better

• I remember the days of sitting at book signings, playing with my pen when no one would come, and still I even then thought I was living the dream, because I had a book out.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Dream

• Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Wonder
  • Stevie

• You can't hit what you can't see.

  

  Walter Johnson
  • You
  • See
  • Hit

• Endorphins are a very powerful thing.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Powerful
  • Thing
  • Very

• The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Future
  • Everyone

• Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Beautiful
  • Amazing
  • Animals

• As America's nuclear strategic monopoly faded, the United States sought to create advantages elsewhere, notably in the peaceful cooperation between the United States and communist China under Deng Xiaoping.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • China
  • Peaceful

• I was called to audition for a play when I was very young, following which I continued to act as well as write and direct. When I moved to Delhi and joined Hindu College, theatre became a very big part of my life.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Life
  • College
  • Theatre

• When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • People
  • Say
  • Walk

• It's funny, because I had no intention of being in a band because I was so shy. But I loved playing music and loved writing songs. I always thought I'd be in the background and, if I did get into a band, be a backup musician.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Funny

• I'm comfortable with my body and it was a creative choice. I know that might make some women feel uncomfortable, but we need to stick together instead of getting angry at each other for our choices. I think women are sensual, beautiful beings, and I feel empowered when I express myself sexually.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Together

• You know I won't be no stick-figure, silicone Barbie doll

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Barbie
  • Stick-figure
  • Silicone

• All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

  

  Joseph de Maistre
  • Love
  • Justice
  • Punishment

• Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • She
  • Hand
  • Church

• It's not easy to follow Jesus' example, and if you go to church it doesn't mean you're automatically doing it.

  

  David O. Russell
  • Mean
  • Church
  • Jesus