James Balog Quotes

You know, I've read Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' about fifteen times.

James Balog

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• Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Future
  • Change
  • Aim

• I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Value

• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I'm doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There's obviously something that really gets them.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Children
  • Think
  • Nice

• There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Company

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• By five or six, when the heels start to hurt, I kick off my shoes and walk bare feet. But that's not a big deal. Nobody else is at the office at that time, and as for singing loudly, I don't sing loudly. I might hum a tune at times when I am thinking about something, but that's all fine.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Singing

• The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Age
  • Me
  • Saying

• What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • People
  • Music
  • Business

• Everyone talks about the big three-oh with dread - but it's exciting. It feels like life is much more put together. Everyone's like, 'Wouldn't you like to be 20 again?' But no way.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Life
  • Together
  • Everyone

• This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.

  

  Ed Wood
  • People
  • Guy
  • Girl

• Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Past
  • Path
  • Company

• I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Giving
  • Nice
  • Present

• Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • People
  • War
  • Die

• Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Money
  • Law
  • Government

• I hate dentists. That's why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn't go back, so it just dropped out when I was in the middle of Fifth Avenue.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Why
  • Hate
  • Go

• While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• There is a beautiful expression of this in the Chandogya Upanishad: 'There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and in this city there is a shrine, and in that shrine there is a small lotus, and in that lotus there is a small space, (akasa). Now what exists within that small space, that is to be sought, that is to be understood.' This is the great discovery of the Upanishads, this inner shrine, this guha, or cave of the heart, where the inner meaning of life, of all human existence, is to be found.

  

  Bede Griffiths
  • Life
  • Great
  • Heart

• I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Why
  • She
  • History

• You do something on television, and so many people see it that it follows you around. It's interesting. I've done a couple of things on TV, and probably more people saw me than in all the movies I've made.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • People
  • Done
  • Interesting

• Michael Bloomberg is a sensible guy. He's just privileged. He's a goddamn billionaire, and he or his family members have never had to deal with anything as remotely degrading as stop and frisk. So he has no point of reference.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Guy
  • Sensible
  • Degrading

• You know, I've read Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' about fifteen times.

  

  James Balog
  • Heart