Brett Ratner Quotes

Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.

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• A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Ideas
  • More
  • Patterns

• Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Needs
  • Cuba
  • Dose

• There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Couple
  • New York
  • Pizza

• Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Business
  • Kings

• I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Me
  • Daily

• If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Want
  • Interesting

• I came to acting in a very circuitous way.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Way
  • Acting
  • Very

• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Start

• Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Thinking
  • Faith
  • Better

• We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • Change
  • Evolve
  • Too

• I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Life
  • Love
  • Walking

• That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Remember
  • Kid
  • Conversation

• I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Game
  • Never
  • Stage

• As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Think
  • Need
  • Far

• The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Home
  • Play
  • Piano

• Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Say
  • Much
  • Gonna

• That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Work
  • Team

• I don't understand capri pants. They seem like neither here nor there.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg

• The mosque was the neighbourhood house of worship, but it was also the place where my high school friends and I came to study.

  

  Ahmed Zewail
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• Some of my friends snowmobile. I'm a little scared of it.

  

  Kevin Garnett
  • Friends

• The only time a relationship is good is when you really love them.

  

  Leighton Meester
  • Time
  • Good
  • Relationship

• The consciousness of a general idea has a certain 'unity of the ego' in it, which is identical when it passes from one mind to another. It is, therefore, quite analogous to a person, and indeed, a person is only a particular kind of general idea.

  

  Charles Sanders Peirce
  • Mind
  • Ego
  • Unity

• Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.

  

  Brett Ratner
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