Phil Lord Quotes

I wish we had fewer bad words in 'Jump Street.' That would probably be better.

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• Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Guy
  • Nice
  • Thoughts

• I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Work
  • Love
  • Living

• Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Opinions

• People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • People
  • Help
  • Rest

• This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • May
  • Like
  • Beauty

• The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • World
  • Live
  • Country

• Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Turn
  • Angels
  • Hierarchy

• This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.

  

  Walter Murch
  • People
  • Job
  • Yourself

• I understand those who don't like me.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Me
  • Like
  • Understand

• A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Good
  • Politics
  • Journalism

• In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Food
  • California
  • Vote

• I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.

  

  Imelda May
  • Work
  • Play
  • Language

• If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Rock
  • Things
  • Songwriter

• Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Men
  • Power
  • Poor

• I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • People
  • Way
  • Relationships

• The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • People
  • American
  • Security

• There's a lot of things I want to do. I want to learn Italian. I want to learn to play tennis better. I want to motivate the world, basically.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • World
  • Learn
  • Better

• I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.

  

  Aimee Bender
  • People
  • Time

• When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight.

  

  Peggy Fleming
  • Positive

• I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Soul
  • Think
  • Words

• 'You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard - in other words a netbook - will be the mainstream on that.' quoted in (February 2010)5

  

  Bill Gates
  • Real
  • Words
  • Reading

• I believe we have made a decision now that will permit us to create an economic order in the world that will promote more growth, more equality, better preservation of the environment, and a greater possibility of world peace, we are on the verge of a global economic expansion that is sparked by the fact that the United States at this critical moment decided that we would compete, not retreat.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Believe
  • Environment
  • Decision

• I wish we had fewer bad words in 'Jump Street.' That would probably be better.

  

  Phil Lord
  • Bad
  • Words
  • Wish