Marvin Ammori Quotes
'Bush v. Gore' gave us a president who lost the popular vote, eventually appointed two more justices, and led us into a war of choice while failing to regulate a financial system dependent on toxic mortgage-backed derivatives.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
-
I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
-
House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
-
I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
-
The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
-
I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
-
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
-
If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that.
-
I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
-
If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
-
Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
-
Words are but the signs of ideas.
-
China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
-
Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
-
One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
-
The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
-
I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.
-
Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.
-
I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dangerous.
-
You know, Chihiro, darling- all it takes is one little wrong step and you end up feeling frustrated your whole life, like me.
-
I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers' emotions can be very indirect. You could come at it through irony or comedy, etcetera, and you could capture people's sympathies and feelings kind of by stealth if you like.
-
After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old.
-
'Bush v. Gore' gave us a president who lost the popular vote, eventually appointed two more justices, and led us into a war of choice while failing to regulate a financial system dependent on toxic mortgage-backed derivatives.
