Brett Ratner Quotes
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I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.
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Today is indeed an historic occasion when as a first chair-in-office woman I hand over to another woman chair in office, your Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in the presence of a woman head of the Commonwealth, Her Royal Highness, Her Majesty the Queen of England.
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I often get too emotionally involved in my cases.
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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
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Oh, I always think everyone feels left out.
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A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.
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I collect imported teas, I have a few cupboards full! It's like wine, each has it's own flavour and you get into their little nuances.
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Mom and Dad were bibliophiles. Dad shared his father's love of westerns, Mom favored the likes of Zelazny and Heinlein, Howard and Burroughs. We owned several hundred books stored in trunks that comprised our portable library.
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I think that I sound a lot better than Diana Ross.
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It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too.
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A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.
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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
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I've been called one of the hardest bargainers who ever held out, and I'm proud of it.
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I didn’t really believe I had 'tiger blood' or 'Adonis DNA.' These were just jokes.
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The deepest thinking is humble. It is only concerned that the flame of truth which it keeps alive should burn with the strongest and purest heat; it does not trouble about the distance to which its brightness penetrates.
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You would think there were 'Straights Only' water fountains the way Democrats carry on so (as if any gay man would drink nonbottled water)
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The best thing about humour is that it shows people they are not alone.
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I cant begin to count how many times I have warned politicians and candidates to worry as much about the good coverage as the bad, because the more air they put in your balloon, the bigger the target when they start shooting.
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You can't generalise about an entire country, but I like the energy of British men.
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Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.
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Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.
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I look for stuff that I'm passionate about.