Billy West Quotes

Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.

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• When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Hope
  • Freedom

• I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Want
  • Know
  • Me

• From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Perspective
  • Born
  • Try

• Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • She
  • Black

• As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Men
  • Women
  • Daughter

• The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Light

• People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • Long
  • Challenge

• I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Reading

• It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Fire

• Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Wisdom
  • Mistake
  • Enemy

• I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.

  

  Naomi Benaron
  • Moment
  • Wings
  • Plane

• I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Parents
  • Hate
  • Embarrassed

• My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • She
  • Mother

• I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going around the United States and speaking in schools is that teenagers here are very interested in the fate of their peers around the world.

  

  Patricia McCormick
  • World
  • Experience
  • Bad

• We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.

  

  Hal Lindsey
  • End
  • Christ
  • Final

• When you come out of the theatre and you don't even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Film

• Visually, a lot of the electronic artists have really interesting video and interesting things like that.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Interesting
  • Like
  • Things

• The great seats of power tend to be wide and open, not vertical and soaring. Red Square, Tiananmen Square, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin - all massive but with large open spaces that project an image of might.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Great
  • Power
  • Red

• Most of my playing style is very on point - the tapping, just by nature of being rhythmic, is tight - so I'd like to explore something looser and less precise.

  

  Marnie Stern
  • Nature
  • Style
  • Explore

• It feels great to discover a planet, just like any discovery in science, except that it has more of the feel of exploration - you can go back and look at it. However, I can never visit.

  

  Dimitar Sasselov
  • Great
  • Science

• I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • World
  • Humanitarian
  • Activist

• My whole life, I've been trying to make people proud.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Producers
  • Bangs
  • Bucks

• Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.

  

  Billy West
  • Different