Billy Baldwin Quotes

We can recognize and give credit where credit is due, to the debt of taste we owe Europe, but we have taste, too.

Billy Baldwin

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• I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Why

• You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my job is done. Now, it's in the stars. We'll see what happens.' There's nothing I can do to affect it.

  

  Sam Huntington
  • Done
  • Job
  • Hands

• Web GIS allows us to take our systems of record - our traditional server and desktop technologies - and integrate them, bringing them together into a system of systems.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Together
  • System
  • Take

• Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.

  

  Karel Capek
  • People
  • Important
  • Moral

• Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Green
  • Favorite
  • Colors

• I think what we've been able to do with 'Longmire' is balance this procedural with a bit of a soap opera, and it's a character study of this character, Walt Longmire, and the people around him.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Character
  • Study

• 'Nappy' is a state of mind, not an appearance.

  

  T-Pain
  • Mind
  • State
  • Appearance

• Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Literature
  • Point
  • Starting

• Whenever I get on stage, I feel safe and in control. Life can be so uncertain, but on stage, I always know how a drama or crisis is going to end. Acting is a great comfort blanket and has gotten me through countless personal crises. I am a firm believer that the show must go on.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Life
  • Great
  • Control

• We've been working our tail off and lead by that example.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Working
  • Example
  • Lead

• One of the things that doesn't come up as much as it should, especially in literary fiction, is this idea of faith and God... I feel like those are things that should be wrestled with... because they are such an integral part of our community on every level.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Up
  • God
  • Faith

• It's weird because music is this thing that you love doing, and it comes completely from a place of creativity, and then that transfers into having to manage a business and make decisions and figure out what is the best route to go in terms of getting your product to as many people as possible.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • People
  • Music
  • Weird

• I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • People
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• I do believe that oil production globally has peaked at 85 million barrels. And I've been very vocal about it. And what happens? The demand continues to rise. The only way you can possibly kill demand is with price. So the price of oil, gasoline, has to go up to kill the demand. Otherwise, keep the price down, the demand rises.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Oil

• It's not very often that you get to come up with ideas and bring your take on the character and then actually have writers, producers, and directors pay attention to it.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Up
  • Character
  • Attention

• As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment.

  

  Kamal Ahmed
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Worry

• Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there you see little kids, cops, old people, cemeteries. Once you see that, you can't say, 'Oh, Iran, let's bomb them.'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Kids
  • War

• Florentine had grown more or less immune to the charms of spring.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Spring

• When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Country

• I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Work
  • Value
  • Criticism

• I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.

  

  Kurt Russell

• My kids don't watch my movies. What I want to do is go home and hug my kids, talk to them and engage with them.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Hug

• At the heart, it is world music that I do. It's all connections. Ultimately, we're all connected.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • World
  • Music
  • Heart

• We can recognize and give credit where credit is due, to the debt of taste we owe Europe, but we have taste, too.

  

  Billy Baldwin