Bob Iger Quotes

It's in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer - what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go.

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• A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Simple

• When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Great
  • American
  • War

• I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Death
  • Hate
  • Sleep

• Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.

  

  Patanjali
  • Suffering
  • Failure
  • Ignorance

• Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Like
  • Habit
  • Muscle

• Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Infinite
  • Necessary
  • Finite

• Details are the only thing that separates one movie from another.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Movie
  • Thing
  • Details

• Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Humanity
  • Funeral
  • Against

• I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Face

• Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. The light spread until the patch of Dark Thing had vanished, and there was only a gentle shining, and through the shining came the stars, clear and pure.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Great
  • Light
  • Dark

• What sought they thus afar?Bright jewels of the mine,The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?They sought a faith's pure shrine.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • War
  • Faith

• Government is the thing. Law is the thing. Not brotherhood, not international cooperation, not security councils that can stop war only by waging it... Where does security lie, anyway - security against the thief, a bad man, the murderer? In brotherly love? Not at all. It lies in government.

  

  E. B. White
  • War
  • Bad
  • Law

• This is the way how we have to understand the accounts of trials; we must not think that God desires to examine us and to try us in order to know what He did not know before. Far is this from Him; He is far above that which ignorant and foolish people imagine concerning Him, in the evil of their thoughts. Note this.

  

  Maimonides
  • People
  • God
  • Evil

• Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Dance
  • Theatre
  • Ballet

• All history is modern history.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • History

• Gradually he King Frederik showed me everybody was going to help me in this...it was not a terrifying thing, but a great challenge.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • Great
  • Help
  • Challenge

• Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

  

  Charlie Chaplin
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• But I do have an idea in my head before I go in about what I'm going to do.

  

  Caroline Corr

• When I was in New York, I got to see Joan Rivers do an hour of material, and it blew my mind. I don't remember how old she was at the time, but she just had this edgy hour that had so much funny stuff in it, and she was so fearless. If you only watch her on the red carpet, you don't get a sense of what a legendary standup comedian she is.

  

  Chelsea Peretti
  • Time
  • Mind
  • She

• I'm single right now and I've chosen to be single because I don't have the time to get to know anybody. So it's okay not to have sex, it's okay to get to know people. I'm celibate, celibacy's fine.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Time
  • Single

• Focusing totally on technique, you lose the essence and power of simplicity... The other extreme is just as bad; you see it in a lot of Modern works, where the concept is more important than the technique, resulting in very poor craftsmanship.

  

  George L. Carlson
  • Modern
  • Simplicity
  • Technique

• I'm distinct, really.

  

  Alexei Sayle

• I've always wanted to write an airport book.

  

  Elizabeth Hand
  • Book

• It's in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer - what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go.

  

  Bob Iger