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.

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• I love being in the editing room and playing with tempo and with the rhythm of shots.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Love
  • Rhythm
  • Editing

• 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.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Country
  • Food
  • Amazing

• 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.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • World
  • Country
  • History

• In order to understand the mindset of a boxer, I needed to become a boxer myself.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Mindset

• Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Proud
  • Very
  • Japanese

• 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.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • School
  • Door
  • Doing

• The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Great
  • Team

• Whaling was the oil business of its day.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Business
  • Day
  • Oil

• I'm not sure my achievements have been 'great.'

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Great
  • Sure
  • Achievements

• 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.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Responsibility
  • Feel
  • Lucky

• 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.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Job
  • Me
  • 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.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Community

• 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.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • God
  • Believe
  • Important

• People always say to me, 'You've really strived to redefine retail.' But the reality is, I wanted to redefine magazines.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Reality
  • Always

• 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.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Think
  • Always
  • Maybe

• 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.'

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Hope
  • Me
  • Training

• Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Good
  • Real
  • Mind

• I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Things
  • Public
  • Radio

• If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Power
  • Spirit
  • Cooperation

• We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Hero
  • Hard
  • Vehicle

• In a lot of movies, African-Americans are either maids or slaves, but that's not all they were. We need to show that. And we can't keep erasing history.

  

  Allison Schroeder
  • History

• Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Meditation
  • Negative

• I don't want to become Washington.

  

  Kevin McCarthy

• 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.

  

  Ory Okolloh