Martin Scorsese Quotes

I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on.

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• Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Food
  • Government
  • Water

• It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Country
  • Money
  • Impossible

• I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Lists

• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Road
  • First
  • River

• People don't appreciate that when you're on the Internet, it's a 24/7 job. Even if you're not releasing episodes, your show is living and breathing on the Internet because there's a community around it. Ninety percent of the work is after the web series is shot, and you have to constantly maintain your community, because it's all you have.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Basketball
  • Try
  • Blood

• There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Up
  • Men
  • Woman

• Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.

  

  Park Bo-gum
  • Power
  • Superhero
  • Days

• You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Great
  • Words
  • Voice

• There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won't allow them to use me, but I have been pretty lucky to have friends who have supported me and who I have known since I was 12. They are still the same and they don't treat me any different.

  

  Lalaine Vergara-Paras
  • People
  • Different
  • Friends

• When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Singing

• There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Used
  • Remedies
  • Middle Ages

• Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Attention

• You can't call me a Twitter phenomenon or a YouTube one. These things are useful, but so's hard gigging. One year I did 311 shows. I did six in one night alone.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Night
  • Alone
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• Let's remember that our children's spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than any bed of flowers ever could.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Important
  • Children
  • Love

• A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Great
  • Old
  • Calamity

• Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Feeling
  • Own
  • Average

• I actually went to law school with Jim Comey. We were in the same class, and he was respected by our classmates just like he was respected by the agents that he supervised.

  

  Amy Klobuchar
  • School
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• I know, a lot of the films I've done, it's obvious I'm going to beat up six guys and just walk out the door. There's not a lot of motivating factors - it's just action for the sake of action.

  

  Jason Statham
  • Up
  • Done
  • Action

• I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.

  

  Jack Steinberger
  • Good
  • Work
  • Family

• The way that we cheered whenever our team was scoring a touchdown,The time that the floor fell out of my car when I put the clutch down.

  

  Hal David
  • Time
  • Team
  • Car

• I'm not at yoga all the time, but equally, I'm not being sick after a night out.

  

  Ella Woodward
  • Time
  • Night
  • Sick

• I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on.

  

  Martin Scorsese
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