Frank Oz Quotes

I don't buy diamonds, I don't buy cars, but I enjoy travelling. I'm not a very possessive person as far as things go.

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• Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Bad

• Some days I wouldn't even go to class. I'd sit in the room and play video games with my friends and eat powdered mashed potatoes.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Friends
  • Play
  • Video Games

• My name is Bolt, Lightning Bolt.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Name
  • Lightning
  • Bolt

• The best thing about being Children's Laureate has definitely been all the children and teens I've met.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Best
  • Being

• I dated someone in the '90s who was really into Metallica, and I remember thinking at the time, 'That just sounds so heavy and hard.' But they have great ballads! Great ballads.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Time
  • Great
  • Thinking

• The way people love sci-fi is how I love cartoons.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • People
  • Love
  • Cartoons

• So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Cool
  • Nothing
  • More

• You know what, I am not gonna lie, that Taylor Swift 'Trouble' song? I can't resist that song. Her melodies are very catchy.

  

  Jacob Artist
  • Song
  • Trouble
  • Resist

• I like the idea of taking off like a bird.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Like
  • Idea
  • Bird

• Vatican City is a bit overrated in my opinion - no offence to the Vatican.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • City
  • Opinion
  • Bit

• 'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • Children
  • Age
  • Books

• In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you're selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Real
  • Dope

• What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I think, be aware of the tension between what he claims to achieve and the reality in which he finds himself.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • People
  • Reality

• To-day, artists and those who love artists seem like fossils. Imagine a megatherium or a diplodocus stalking the streets of Paris! There you have the impression that we must make upon our contemporaries. Ours is an epoch of engineers and of manufacturers, not one of artists.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Paris

• I watched the night unfold from beginning to end on my own here in my flat in Budapest where I've been working for the last six months, and when it was announced that Barack Obama was indeed president-elect, I wept.

  

  David Harewood
  • Night
  • Beginning

• I'm not a partisan.

  

  Douglas Brinkley

• As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently so.

  

  Arabella Weir
  • Up
  • Growing

• Everybody's a mix of good and bad choices that they make.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Choices

• Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.

  

  Pierre Trudeau
  • Elephant

• The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Judging
  • Experiments
  • Tests

• There is a kind of desperate need for somebody to tell everyone what to do, which I find really peculiar in America. And then when you tell them, they're not interested, because it's also a country where everybody's opinion is their opinion, and they really don't give a damn what you think. So it's a very odd experience.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Country
  • Experience
  • America

• It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.

  

  Linda Blair
  • People
  • Why
  • Mankind

• O my people, I disavow all that you associate with God. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens and the earth and I am not one of the associators.

  

  Abdelkader El Djezairi
  • God
  • Face
  • Orientation

• I don't buy diamonds, I don't buy cars, but I enjoy travelling. I'm not a very possessive person as far as things go.

  

  Frank Oz