James Sinegal Quotes

You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.

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• I grew up in a very large, poor family.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Up
  • Family
  • Poor

• A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Book
  • Man
  • Talent

• I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Young
  • Ready
  • Benefits

• Things are looking up, and hopefully, I will be doing good roles in both Hollywood and Bollywood.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • Up
  • Good
  • Doing

• I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Good
  • Never
  • Rugby

• Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Fun

• One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Desire
  • Stupid
  • Dreams

• You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • You
  • Know
  • Selfish

• Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Words
  • Way
  • Humor

• I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.

  

  Raf Simons
  • She
  • Way
  • Fashion

• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • People
  • Creative
  • Impossible

• This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Children
  • Together

• I've done a lot of roles where I'm the hero saving the planet.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Done
  • Hero
  • Where

• Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fun

• I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.

  

  Karin Fossum
  • Small
  • Community
  • City

• Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Lies
  • Possible

• I don't ever get too literal.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes

• Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Business
  • Conflict
  • Him

• The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Long
  • Society
  • Term

• As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Love
  • Child
  • Vocalists

• I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Nice
  • Film
  • Tears

• You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.

  

  James Sinegal
  • Long
  • Business
  • Worry