David S. Goyer Quotes

It took a while for the first 'Blade' to get made, and Marvel decided they liked the Whistler character so much, when Blade guest starred on the 'Spider-Man' cartoon, they put Whistler on the cartoon, and the movie hadn't come out yet.

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• I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Green
  • Eat
  • Vegetables

• You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Wealth
  • Going

• As a teenager, I wanted to look like the early '90s curvy supermodels. Even in my early 20s, I always said as soon as I retired from cycling, I'd get a boob job.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Job
  • Look
  • Said

• Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Hero
  • Head
  • Stone

• At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Lost
  • Present
  • Moment

• When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Way
  • Play
  • Stronger

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• When we say a show is successful, it's because, relative to the investment, it's successful, relative to how else we would have spent that money on licensing something else, does this creation - did it attract the audience that it was built for.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Money
  • Successful
  • Creation

• I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • She
  • Mother
  • Food

• I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Black

• I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Democracy
  • Corporate
  • Boards

• I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • People
  • Movie
  • See

• I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
  • World
  • Eyes

• In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Victory
  • Performance
  • Debate

• It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Science
  • Reason
  • Authority

• She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • She
  • You
  • Me

• If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Freedom
  • Care
  • Injustice

• Just because you're selling out shows doesn't mean you deserve better treatment than the person next door.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Better
  • Door
  • Just Because

• Poetry is not mainstream, but then neither is serious fiction, really. But I don't think there's a lot to worry about in this particular 'problem'. Why does art have to be mainstream to be significant?

  

  Jonathan Galassi
  • Why
  • Art
  • Serious

• Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Poet
  • Carpe
  • Dead Poets

• The work ethic behind everything Kanye does is crazy. It's greatness. He told me, 'We're not just rappers, we're artists.'

  

  Sidney Royel Selby III
  • Work
  • Crazy
  • Greatness

• Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Character
  • Power

• I never in a million years thought I would be starring in Hairspray, ever. Because if you think about my past, it's been 30 years of playing a macho leading man, so when I was offered it, I said: "Why? Why me? What have I done to deserve that you think I should do this?" After much convincing, over a year and two months, I was convinced they wanted to make a great movie.

  

  John Travolta
  • Great
  • Men
  • Thinking

• It took a while for the first 'Blade' to get made, and Marvel decided they liked the Whistler character so much, when Blade guest starred on the 'Spider-Man' cartoon, they put Whistler on the cartoon, and the movie hadn't come out yet.

  

  David S. Goyer
  • Character
  • Movie