Fred Silverman Quotes

I was the King of Twinkie-Vision one day, the King of Jiggle TV the next, thanks to Farrah Fawcett and 'Three's Company.'

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• Thanks to the Japanese and Geronimo, John Wayne became a millionaire.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Thanks
  • Japanese
  • Became

• With 'Mask,' 'Smooth Talk' and 'Blue Velvet,' I loved the specific experiences so much. Each one was a specific filmmaker with a specific vision.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Vision
  • Blue
  • Mask

• The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Goal

• A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • World
  • Job
  • Vision

• When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Good
  • Bad
  • High

• Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • World
  • Country
  • Change

• Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • People
  • Reality
  • Vision

• I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's vision.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Vision
  • Pride
  • Director

• The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell people what they want to hear, because your company's stock won't rise if you spout an unpopular vision to analysts.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Vision
  • Internet

• We are a constitutional monarchy. I don't order laws, I propose them. Article 35 of our constitution states that the king can only refuse a law of parliament once, then he has to sign it - if the same law is then supported by a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Law
  • King
  • Same

• Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Time
  • Different
  • Vision

• It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give.

  

  Jack Cade
  • May
  • Man
  • King

• The whole European Federal plan is ridiculous. We are patriotic. The single currency is an outrage. We want the Queen's head - or the King's head, if we have a king - on our own coins.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Want
  • Single
  • King

• Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • America
  • Democracy

• Not everybody's gonna get your vision.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Vision
  • Everybody
  • Your

• I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed to be at his most insane, he is actually understanding the world for the first time.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • World
  • Understanding

• I did an interview once where I was asked who I found attractive and I went on about cartoons and Nala from 'The Lion King' - and it's a bit weird but various of my ex-girlfriends actually did look like Nala.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Weird
  • King
  • Lion

• I believe we can do more in making the President's vision for space exploration a reality by awarding cash prizes to encourage greater participation of the private sector in the national space program.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Believe
  • Reality
  • Space

• A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • King
  • Voice
  • Popular

• I've been fascinated by the world ever since I read 'Kitchen Confidential' by Anthony Bourdain. I've watched 'Top Chef' and watched interviews with chefs on 'Charlie Rose'... I thought they're really intriguing characters, and they really encapsulate that tension between vision and commerce, art and commerce.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • World
  • Art
  • Vision

• Thanks to iCloud and other services, the choice of a phone or tablet today may lock a consumer into a branded silo, making it hard for him or her to do what Apple long importuned potential customers to do: switch.

  

  Jonathan Zittrain
  • Long
  • May
  • Today

• It was a privilege to direct the music video for Adele's beautiful, heartbreaking song, 'Hello.' When I first heard it, all the images appeared clearly in my head - and her trust and generosity allowed me to work with abandon artistically and emotionally, like she always does. It made me extremely proud.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Work
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• I must dedicate my life to teaching my people, for only education would make their lot less bitter, their latent power more strong.

  

  Y. C. James Yen
  • People
  • Life
  • Power

• I was the King of Twinkie-Vision one day, the King of Jiggle TV the next, thanks to Farrah Fawcett and 'Three's Company.'

  

  Fred Silverman
  • Vision
  • King
  • Thanks