Blake Edwards Quotes

Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.

Blake Edwards

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• For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Society
  • Data

• I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Career
  • Past
  • Amazing

• If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Music
  • Today
  • Moving

• Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Life
  • Great
  • Music

• You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

  

  Harold Prince
  • You
  • Couple
  • Years

• Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Black
  • Nothing
  • Cinema

• There's nothing new under the sun, right? I think the most modern thing you can do with designing is just taking something that's existing and introducing it in a way that hasn't been done.

  

  Yoon Ahn
  • Done
  • Think
  • Sun

• When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Mother
  • Focus
  • Decision

• The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Attention
  • Never
  • Staring

• Our soldiers and people form one family. United, we may count on victory.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • People
  • Family
  • May

• The State of Israel is a state that was formed before the people were even in it. You have to understand: In India, in Burma, in Pakistan - all of the people were already there. Their problem was for the English to leave so they could be independent.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • People
  • Problem
  • English

• When I was first starting out in the music industry, I was always coupled in the same sentence with Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera - and I was probably the worst of them. I think a lot of people back then thought, 'Mandy Moore... she'll probably go back to where she came from in a year.'

  

  Mandy Moore
  • People
  • Music
  • She

• I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • True
  • Emotional
  • Stories

• My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Life
  • Stuck
  • Rut

• I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Years
  • Old
  • Lived

• …the totalitarian states, whether of the fascist or the communist persuasion, are more than superficially alike as dictatorships, in the suppression of dissent, and in operating planned and directed economies. They are profoundly alike.

  

  Walter Lippmann

• For the first time in sixty years, the priests, the old aristocracy and the people met in a common sentiment-a feeling of revenge, it is true, and not of affection ; but even that is a great thing in politics, where a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Life

• The healthiest companies are always characterized by organic talent development.

  

  Margaret Heffernan

• I would much rather meet them and deal with them now. That's the way I feel about it. The only thing it does for me is like, bring 'em on. I don't really care. And so if my team takes that same attitude, I don't care who we play and when we play.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Way
  • Play
  • Care

• Spring Training is a fun time for me.

  

  Joe Torre
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Training

• Those portions of the brain, seemingly unused, deal with these other dimensions, and physically, you begin to use these portions, though minutely, for the first time, under psychedelic situations.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Time
  • Brain

• I'm a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes. Nearly every one of these - from R2D2 to Hellboy's revolver - ends with the paint job. And it's not just cosmetic. The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it's been, what it's been used for, and for how long.

  

  Adam Savage
  • Long
  • Job
  • Movie

• Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.

  

  Blake Edwards