Martin Scorsese Quotes

I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

Martin Scorsese

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• I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Love
  • You
  • Just

• Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Important
  • Love
  • Feelings

• It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Israel
  • Hatred
  • Decade

• I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Important
  • Job
  • Hair

• People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Different
  • Day

• If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • People
  • Live
  • Government

• I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Day
  • End
  • Changes

• Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • People
  • Good
  • Care

• Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the Arabic philosopher/physician Avicenna from the 11th Century A.D. believed in it.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Greek
  • Immortality
  • Seductive

• My wife and I volunteer for the Guide Dog Foundation, and we have two giant labs.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Wife
  • Dog
  • Foundation

• People see you on TV every day, they start knowing your name. You know, I was always just the guy from Maroon 5 until I became myself.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Guy
  • Day

• Democracy has to be judged not just by the institutions that formally exist but by the extent to which different voices from diverse sections of the people can actually be heard.

  

  Amartya Sen
  • People
  • Different
  • Democracy

• For he considered that, in many cases, but especially in war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources, virtually has them; that very prospect inspiring him with hope and boldness in his exertions.

  

  Livy
  • War
  • Hope

• Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Mind
  • Faith
  • Discipline

• We will wash and clean the ANC, and it will be the ANC you know. The ANC that will work for the people.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • People
  • Work

• Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Revolution

• If there was any one achievement, it would be that we've have done it on our own terms.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • Done
  • Achievement

• I didn't really want to write just lyrics, but I wanted to meet Leonard Bernstein. Music was always the first reason I was writing songs.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Reason

• It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Writing
  • Stupid
  • Inside

• The thematic links came a little later, after I noticed I was gravitating towards certain elements - war, city, weather. So it wasn't all planned out from the start, it came out of the process.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • War
  • City
  • Cities

• There was a long time in my life where I made music that I thought my friends would like, or that I thought would get me a record deal, or what I thought I was supposed to make because that's what I was seeing in mainstream. I didn't know myself; I didn't find myself musically or, in real life.

  

  Daniel Dewan Sewell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• Symphonies can generate a tremendous amount of sounds, beauty, and emotion. That is part of their human feel and sweetness. Keyboards, on the other hand, give us access to millions of sounds. When I put the two together, the result is unique, and it’s not only pleasing to the ear, but produces emotional responses that neither of the two can achieve on their own.

  

  Yanni
  • Together
  • Giving
  • Emotional

• I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

  

  Martin Scorsese