Randy Newman Quotes

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.

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• As the world undergoes a major transformation, it's the time of significant opportunity and also threat.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Time
  • World
  • Opportunity

• I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Long
  • Think

• We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Think
  • Physical
  • Heritage

• I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Money
  • Why
  • Job

• The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Business
  • Failure

• I don't know who Little Richard is.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Know
  • Who
  • Richard

• I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Bible
  • Hell
  • Crime

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• 'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.

  

  Barbara Cooney
  • Heart
  • Right
  • Ego

• My father will never say no to a character, as I never go to him and talk about a character for which he won't give the nod.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Character
  • Father
  • Never

• I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Love
  • Art
  • Philosophy

• I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Up
  • She
  • Reading

• Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Play
  • Competition
  • Golf

• It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Like
  • Looks
  • Discount

• The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Time
  • Great
  • Age

• Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Green
  • Favorite
  • Colors

• The bigger you get, the more pressure you have to deal with.

  

  Miranda Lambert

• What we did with 'AllThingsD', though, was very different. We weren't taking a newspaper and putting it on the web; we were creating a digital native product, and we did it inside of a very old, stuffy newspaper company at the time.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Time
  • Different
  • Company

• In hindsight, everything in my life looks a little rosy. But the reality is that with, say, 'Swingers,' when we finished, it was considered a total failure.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Failure

• I think the [New England] Patriots' season should have an asterisk next to it because everything they're accomplishing is against teams coached by people other than me.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Team

• When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.

  

  Ariel Gore
  • Support
  • Understanding
  • Study

• I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.

  

  Randy Newman
  • True
  • Earth
  • Genius