Ory Okolloh Quotes
I think the Internet is having an impact in very diverse ways anchored around amplifying voice, from enabling what I like to refer to as micro-activism.
Quotes to Explore
-
I love being in the editing room and playing with tempo and with the rhythm of shots.
-
Grease and starch just always win over protein. In food as in so many things. Look around you, that's what our whole country is based on. It's amazing that Michael Jordan can be an iconic figure because he's basically just protein.
-
The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
-
In order to understand the mindset of a boxer, I needed to become a boxer myself.
-
Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.
-
I never wanted to be a director. I came into this industry by the little door, so I never learned anything; I never went to school. Actors will tell you I'm very precise. I just have the intuition of doing things.
-
The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.
-
Whaling was the oil business of its day.
-
I'm not sure my achievements have been 'great.'
-
I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting, I take to the pen, and I write something I want to direct. And then, when I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director, I then look for an acting gig. And I've made it very clear that I'm interested in voiceover work. I mean, I'm always looking for voiceover gigs. I love that.
-
Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.
-
Planned Parenthood is a pretty popular organization. Way more popular than Congress! It claims that one in five women have received care from one of its clinics. And this care, despite what abortion opponents say, is excellent and not easily replaceable by 'community health centers.' Texas tried it, and thousands of women went without care.
-
Religious beliefs have played a vital role in forming America's character as well as my own. I was raised as a Lutheran, and I believe in God and consider my faith and involvement with organized religion to be an important part of who I am.
-
People always say to me, 'You've really strived to redefine retail.' But the reality is, I wanted to redefine magazines.
-
The set for 'Blade Runner' was maybe the hardest set I've ever worked on because I think we worked 50 nights in a row, and it was always raining.
-
Going through the ranks and all the training you do as an actor, you hope you're going to make it. But there's a part of you that's got to be realistic and say: 'Look, it might not happen to me.'
-
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
-
I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.
-
You won't always be here. But before you go, whisper this to your sons and their sons 'The work was free. Keep it so.'
-
If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.
-
If I'm not working, I really have nothing to do with it - I'm not hanging out and mixing with film people. Not that I have anything against film people; they're some of the best people around and some of the worst people around, just like in any business... they just gesticulate a little bit more.
-
It’s just as easy to lie to yourself as it is to lie to other people. Maybe easier.
-
I think the Internet is having an impact in very diverse ways anchored around amplifying voice, from enabling what I like to refer to as micro-activism.
