Billy Eckstine Quotes

L.A. is kind of laid back, but New York, everybody is out there for that buck, you know.

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• Here's the thing: I left Ion Storm and Eidos in the spring of 2004 frankly because I felt out of place at that company.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Spring
  • Company
  • Storm

• I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Kind
  • Day

• Sometimes, it's good to stick to your guns.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Good
  • Sometimes
  • Guns

• Ben Stiller, who I love and who is a friend and is such an incredible actor - he's hilarious, obviously, but I thought his performance in 'Greenberg' was extraordinary.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Love
  • Friend
  • Thought

• The thing is, even though you think a lot about your movie, and there's a lot of preparation behind it, the final end result completely goes beyond it. It's not something you're aware of.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Movie
  • Think
  • End

• Fifty-nine cents. For years, I wore a button - '59 cents.' Many of my colleagues wore it also. The purpose was so that people would come up and ask, 'What does '59 cents' mean?' One could then launch into a discussion about how women working full time in the U.S. earn 59 cents for every dollar earned by men.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• One of my favorite albums in the world is Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska.' Each song has this very distinct character who has something profound to say.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • World
  • Character
  • Song

• We do not need the empire to give us anything.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Need
  • Give
  • Empire

• Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Art
  • Moment
  • Matter

• Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Art
  • Joke
  • Salt

• Mass prosperity came with the mass innovation that sprung up in 1815 in Britain, soon after in America, and later in Germany and France: It brought sustained growth to these nations - also to nations with entrepreneurs willing and able to copy the innovations.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • America
  • Growth

• Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time

• It had never occurred to us that the Kremlin's new anti-booze campaign would apply to journalists. Now, that's a human-rights violation.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Campaign
  • Journalists
  • Violation

• We all choose our own teachers, don't we? I wonder if our choice of teacher shows anything about what our lives will be.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Wonder
  • Teacher

• Evolutionism is to think that a hurricane blowing through a junkyard could somehow assemble a fully equipped and flight-ready 747.

  

  Ben Carson

• But the line of thought that I'd been chasing for several days was implicit in the ruins of the old Roman Empire, which gradually destroyed itself by substituting the faith in a legion of miraculous words for the strength of armies and the weight of walls.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Words
  • Faith

• The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness.

  

  Alice Walker
  • People
  • World
  • Soul

• Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.

  

  Akio Morita
  • Bad
  • Alone

• Pioneering in space was something I would willingly give my life for.

  

  Scott Carpenter
  • Life
  • Space
  • Pioneering

• I just finished Meet Joe Black with Hopkins.

  

  Claire Forlani
  • Black

• To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief of some kind.

  

  Judith Guest
  • Reason
  • Principle
  • Get Up

• It's not that I have resisted songwriting, it's just not something I felt I have had to do. I've just not woken up and thought, I must do this. But I have often heard music that I have instantly felt 'I have to sing that song'.

  

  Alison Krauss
  • Up
  • Music
  • Song

• In the summer, on fine evenings, I love to drive late and alone in the scented forests, and when I have reached a dark part stop, and sit quite still, listening to the nightingales repeating their little tune over and over aga^n after interludes of gurgling, or if there are no nightingales, listening to the marvellous silence, and letting its blessedness descend into my very souL The nightingales in the forests about here all sing the same tune, and in the same key of E flat.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Listening
  • Silence
  • Key

• L.A. is kind of laid back, but New York, everybody is out there for that buck, you know.

  

  Billy Eckstine