Brett Ratner Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.
-
I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.
-
If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
-
As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the acquisition of communications on a planetary scale.
-
I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened.
-
What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.
-
I don't always have the best eating habits. I like butter and ice cream. There are days when I should work out and I don't. But it's never too late to change old habits.
-
I have been into social work since 45 years, and at an average, every day for one or two hours, I have been engaging in social discourses. It is not a small thing.
-
Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.
-
In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
-
We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in.
-
You paint what you know best; what you went through as a teenager and child. My world is the one I got to know in Medellin; I never paint anything else other than that.
-
The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.
-
The song 'What Goes Up' was inspired as I was playing the piano and reminiscing about the Spaceship One launches I witnessed in the Mojave desert. It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized.
-
I was living in a small town in Indiana working as a telemarketer and a vacuum salesman. I was really bad: the vacuums seemed to always be falling apart. Every time I did a demonstration, I'd say, 'This is the material the astronauts used on Apollo 13.' And no sooner had that come out of my mouth, something would malfunction.
-
Basketball players aren't always the best dressers.
-
American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions.
-
I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
-
Earlier, if you had a piece of technology, anyone could theoretically take it apart and put it back together again, and understand how it works. Some people would do that with the technology that they owned. It's not as easy to do that today. Most users wouldn't even think to do anything like that.
-
Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.
-
Working in a restaurant means being part of a family, albeit usually a slightly dysfunctional one. Nothing is accomplished independently.
-
We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.
-
It's not necessary to have read everything about a particular subject in order to get interested in it. The main thing is to sort out what's important and what is peripheral in order to be able to dive in.
-
I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.
