Martin Scorsese Quotes

I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures.

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• When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Music
  • Way
  • Looking

• I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Responsibility

• Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Man
  • Stars
  • Theory

• Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Living
  • Destruction
  • Ecstasy

• I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Battle
  • Planets

• I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Believe
  • Respect

• I see Intershop as a leader in the E-commerce digital economy and believe the company has truly long-term potential.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Leader

• As a Business Ambassador, I am delighted to help both new and established British designers receive the recognition they deserve in the global fashion arena.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Business
  • Fashion
  • Designers

• I don't think anyone can measure up to what my father had achieved. I'm just happy to at least play some of his music, but he is really the one who was the pioneer, the one who started all this. He's really The King.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • Music
  • Happy

• Now, the typical way you make good things happen in Washington is you find a bunch of wealthy companies who agree with you.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Good
  • Find
  • Good Things

• In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs.

  

  Harold Larwood
  • First
  • Season
  • Average

• The Young Women's Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the same time, over the years, it's been enriched by beliefs and values from all kinds of places, even, in fact, strengthened by our diversity.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Time
  • Women
  • Christian

• The worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses end up socializing with other people with big houses.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Up

• When we talk of a resurgent Asia, people think of the great changes that have come about in Shanghai. I share this aspiration to transform Mumbai in the next five years in such a manner that people would forget about Shanghai and Mumbai will become a talking point.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • People
  • Great

• There are certain myths that have persisted throughout the ages, and this one has remained very potent in modern culture. The Arthurian cycle involves numerous kinds of relationships, not only between men but also between men and women. In our rather less structured society nowadays defining these relationships can sometimes be difficult.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Men
  • Women
  • Society

• There's so much revenue that comes in from a cap-and-trade system that you can really go to a person in a congressional district and get enough votes there by saying, ‘What do you need? What do you want?’

  

  Barbara Boxer

• Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

  

  Edward de Bono
  • Brain

• It doesn't matter how you travel it, it's the same road. It doesn't get any easier when you get bigger, it gets harder. And it will kill you if you let it.'

  

  James Brown
  • Road
  • Travel

• My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Trying
  • Money

• I get very envious of my general news colleagues who are always being handed sexy new stuff like global warming, China, and Donald Trump, while my sports colleagues and I must be eternally satisfied with the same old home-court advantage, soccer, and momentum.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Home
  • Sports
  • Trump

• 15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me dancing on stage, I'm imitating the mentally ill.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Trying
  • Looks
  • Dancing

• There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Life
  • May

• I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures.

  

  Martin Scorsese