James Toback Quotes

The past is history, the future's a mystery.

James Toback

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• I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Think
  • Evil

• I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Time
  • Great
  • Real

• God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • God
  • Understanding

• I kind of crave loneliness.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Kind
  • Loneliness
  • Crave

• I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Love
  • Strong
  • Own

• My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Start

• It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.

  

  Cal Hubbard
  • Game
  • Team
  • Pressure

• I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Year

• Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Really
  • Were
  • Blur

• I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Like
  • Always
  • Leave

• Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • Bad
  • History

• It's ridiculous that we are in a place where we feel like we can classify and dismiss certain groups of people just because of the way they look, or we have these standards of health - like, cellulite is something you need to get rid of. No, it isn't. It's just a part of people's bodies.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Health
  • Look

• Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • Friends
  • Proud
  • Friendship

• I give dignity second place to expedience.

  

  Jack Vance

• Let us draw upon Content for the deficiencies of fortune.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Up
  • May
  • Morning

• Marx was the greatest of all theorists of socialism.

  

  Benito Mussolini

• The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Men
  • Women

• When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

  

  Marissa Mayer
  • People
  • Night
  • Science

• No nation has the right to bring about a revolution, even though such a change may be most urgently needed, if the price is the blood of one single innocent individual.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • May
  • Single
  • Revolution

• People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • People
  • Past
  • Things

• Don't sit there and wallow in woe-is-me stuff that happened in your past. Move forward. Face whatever you're afraid of. Or deal with it.

  

  Tionne Watkins TLC
  • Past

• We were terribly excited, and I think we took it on our shoulders that we were creating the 21st century in 1971. That was the idea. And we wanted to just blast everything in the past, rather like the vorticists did at the beginning of the century in the Britain or the dadaists did Europe, you know. It was the same sensibility of everything is rubbish, and all rubbish is wonderful.

  

  David Bowie
  • Thinking
  • Past
  • Wonderful

• The past is history, the future's a mystery.

  

  James Toback
  • History
  • Future
  • Past