Douglas Trumbull Quotes

I took IMAX public back in the early '90s.

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• People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • People
  • Man
  • Hell

• I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Friends
  • Man
  • Nice

• Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • American
  • War
  • Wisdom

• I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Same
  • Sword

• Money often costs too much.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Too Much
  • Often

• So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Good
  • Decision
  • Thought

• So we all got basically what we wanted, and as far as the women are concerned, he figured that 30 good women could handle a crew of 300 anyway. So that's how we ended up with our crew.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • Up
  • Good
  • Women

• We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, and the important things will not change if we keep our priorities in proper order.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • World
  • Important
  • Live

• I was greatly influenced by musique concrete when I was, like, 10. I was completely mesmerized by the idea that you could make music out of sounds. So that's been a constant influence on all my work.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Work
  • Music
  • Influence

• My all-time low is 62 at Bel-Air, but it was in match play, and I had two putts given to me from four feet. I'm playing only about once or twice a month. Full-time job. Full-time father. Full-time blonde.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • Time
  • Job
  • Father

• I have to strive to go two steps forward and realize that, sometimes, there will be one step back.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Sometimes
  • Step
  • Realize

• Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Matter
  • Write
  • Problems

• There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Art
  • Politics
  • Literature

• I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is literally the only time I can be completely abstract and disconnected from the regular world and yet be connected - to my music.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Time
  • World
  • Music

• Ike runs the country, and I turn the pork chops.

  

  Mamie Eisenhower
  • Country
  • Turn
  • Pork

• Breakfast had been prepared by the kitchen maid, an indifferent performer who had used the scorched earth policy on the bacon again.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Earth
  • Kitchen
  • Breakfast

• The dullness of fact is the mother of fiction.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Mother

• Jam on cause Backstreet's got itCome on now everybodyWe've got it goin' on for years.

  

  Backstreet Boys

• If you know anything about me and my history, you know I'm very particular about my projects.

  

  Dr. Dre
  • History

• I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.

  

  Charisma Carpenter
  • Life
  • Journey

• Scientists, especially physicists, we're presumptuous and think we can do everything better than everybody else. And one thing that I realized early is, I had some talent managing and organizing things - you know, some people are better organizers than others - but why should I reinvent the wheel?

  

  Barry Barish
  • People
  • Why

• My job is to allow myself to be free. I go up on stage and I have to find the inner wild rock-star guy and let him out. That's what I get paid to do, and when I think about it, it's pretty mind-blowing. I don't have a quota I have to meet, I don't have a deadline - well, I have deadlines but they're loose - and I can be myself at the highest level.

  

  Pierre Bouvier Simple Plan
  • Job
  • Deadlines
  • Quota

• The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • People
  • World
  • Power

• I took IMAX public back in the early '90s.

  

  Douglas Trumbull