Bill Viola Quotes

There's another world out there just beyond the world we're in. It's just on the other side of that translucent, semitransparent surface.

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• People should focus on my foundation, my projects, and everything positive and important that I am doing in Latin America and the around the world.

  

  Maluma
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I'm always about, 'What is the most productive version of what I'm putting into the world?' Something that can be engaged by all folks. I don't have to change everyone.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • World
  • Change
  • Most

• Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• Lanai at one time grew 98% of the world's pineapples. But the world's pineapples are now grown in two places, Costa Rica and Panama, because no one wants to spend $45 for a pineapple from the United States.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Time
  • World
  • Now

• I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Progress
  • Reaction
  • Hopes

• Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • World
  • Political
  • Religion

• Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • World
  • Insanity
  • Adjustment

• Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • World
  • Work
  • Children

• In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Famous
  • Fame
  • Journalism

• Everybody that's employed by 'WWE' - the biggest wrestling company in the world - should be good wrestlers able to tell good stories.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • World
  • Good
  • Company

• 'Thrones' would be the perfect platform to send a progressive message because right now, our politicians aren't telling us any truths. It's hard to find a good, meaningful message, so I think it's up to storytellers, television shows, and films to have an impact on the world conversation. Is that not what film and television is for?

  

  Finn Jones
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roof.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • World
  • Light
  • Candle

• I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Know
  • Almost

• Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Natural
  • Example
  • Objects

• When I returned to the United States after three years of World War II service, my total assets consisted of one wife, one small daughter, $276 in the bank, and an idea. The idea was for an export business to supply items badly needed everywhere in Europe.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • World
  • Business
  • War

• India is the second biggest defence procurer in the world after the U.S.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • World
  • India
  • Second

• Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Work
  • Different
  • Why

• God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • God
  • Truth

• I see myself stepping more heavily into the producing world. I like having that control, and being in control so to speak, and being part of picking great material and bringing it to life.

  

  La La Anthony
  • World
  • Control
  • Producing

• I only get involved with roles that I find intriguing, in top quality productions regardless of the medium. I try not to focus on the format itself and concentrate instead, on finding roles that challenge and entertain me as an artist.

  

  Brian J. White
  • Focus
  • Quality
  • Challenge

• I don't have an image. Don't give me one. I want no image to have to uphold.

  

  Bob Weinstein

• Nobody would be an actor if he/she were not charming at some level.

  

  Katrina Kaif
  • She

• I want to fix education in the world. As soon as I work on that, I am going to work on world hunger and then world peace.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • World
  • Work
  • Education

• There's another world out there just beyond the world we're in. It's just on the other side of that translucent, semitransparent surface.

  

  Bill Viola
  • World