Billy Wilder Quotes

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

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• People take things so seriously.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • People
  • Things
  • Seriously

• The only power you have is the word no.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Power
  • You
  • Word

• Let us have peace.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Peace
  • U.S.
  • Let Us

• I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Secret

• You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Movies
  • New Things

• I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • Why
  • Friends

• I think I'm very old-fashioned.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Think
  • Very
  • Old-fashioned

• Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
  • Society
  • Rest

• The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Best
  • King

• A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Good
  • Way
  • Crime

• Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.

  

  Hal Roach
  • Play
  • Actor
  • Comedian

• I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.

  

  Vince Carter
  • Play
  • Fighting
  • Sports

• If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Good
  • Important
  • Friend

• I got through college.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • College
  • Through
  • Got

• I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Good
  • Church
  • Myself

• To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Woman
  • Path
  • Independent

• I've never worked with huge pop acts, I mightn't like it, but it's something I've always wanted to try.

  

  Flume
  • Always
  • Never
  • Try

• Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.

  

  Patti Davis
  • Heart
  • Father
  • Past

• I believe that people should get a second chance, but I do believe that Baylor is threatening the safety of their students by putting somebody like that in a classroom with girls.

  

  Ashley Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Safety

• One of the greatest things about our band is that we bring the American dream to the world. Here's a bunch of kids that were living in nowhere New Jersey, and we made it through a lot of practice and a lot of work and a lot of luck. It shows the world, 'If we did it, you can do it.'

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • World
  • Work
  • Kids

• There are people who literally cannot start a project until the deadline is four hours away, even if it's a big one. And those people have a serious problem. My recommendation is set up mini-deadlines. You might say, 'Okay, here's my deadline after three days for this and there's another deadline for that and then a third deadline.'

  

  Robert Pozen
  • People
  • Up
  • Serious

• I love Anthropology for kitchenware - they make the best bowls, plates, cutlery etc.

  

  Ella Woodward

• You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

  

  Billy Wilder
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  • Dream
  • Morning