Martin Scorsese Quotes

I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak.

Martin Scorsese

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• Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Small
  • Popular
  • Chess

• In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Strong
  • Beginning

• It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Art
  • Movement
  • Museum

• I am not in the business of suppressing books.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Business
  • Books
  • Suppressing

• From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • Money
  • Moment
  • Talent

• One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Change

• Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Learn
  • Being
  • Realize

• The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Learning
  • Doing

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Interesting
  • Always
  • Humor

• Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Work
  • Museums
  • Walls

• When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Music
  • Business
  • Deep

• World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • World
  • Great
  • Done

• The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • World
  • Real
  • Business

• What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Goal

• Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Long
  • Surprise

• I hope that I can continue to champion Dr. Paul's efforts to audit the Fed, protect state's rights, and getting our nation back on track.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Hope
  • Champion
  • I Can

• One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

  

  Man Ray
  • Power
  • Genius
  • His

• Any leader needs to be constantly interested in what's going on in the world, and constantly ready - even when things are going well - to change.

  

  Carol Bartz
  • World

• A lot of the songs on the new album are about imaginary things, things that you can't touch - ghosts and rumors, my dead grandmother, things visiting you in a dream.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Dream
  • Songs
  • Imaginary

• The responsibility of carrying and bringing a new life into this world is one that cannot be taken lightly.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Life
  • World
  • Responsibility

• I try to think of myself as a struggling competitor or specialist at my craft, much like a singer, dancer, comedian, or actor. So I'm struggling to do my craft and I'm continually trying to learn to do it better. I think that's what's really been my secret.

  

  Kai Greene
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Struggle

• I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak.

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • Life