Frank Oz Quotes

The biggest problems with movies are expectations.

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• As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Style
  • Best
  • Woman

• Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Saying

• In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Hand

• Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • May
  • Never
  • Students

• No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Women
  • America
  • Savage

• I love the 1,500 meters. I knew that, if I had to do it to win, I'd run under 4:05. That means I could pick up 100 points, maybe even 150 points, on anybody in the world.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Up
  • World
  • Love

• Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • People
  • Life
  • Question

• My books have occasionally been of mixed success. It's not like I have gone from triumph to triumph. I have had a couple of books do very, very well and a couple do very, very badly.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Success
  • Like
  • Couple

• I wanted to honor my heritage and where I came from and keep the name. It was a tough decision to even change the spelling of it phonetically. I wanted to keep it as close to the original as it can be.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Change
  • Decision
  • Honor

• I played lots of fantasy games. I would create these worlds, and I would believe in them.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Believe
  • Games
  • Create

• Sjogren's is something you live with your whole life. The good news for me is now I know what's happening after spending years not knowing... I feel like I can get better and move on.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Life
  • Good
  • Live

• But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Nature
  • Human Nature
  • Seed

• You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Up
  • Together
  • Culture

• 'Tis very strange Men should be so fond of being thought wickeder than they are.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Men

• Look, I'm going to find a way to be happy, and I'd really love to be happy with you, but if I can't be happy with you, then I'll find a way to be happy without you.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Happy

• It was many and many a year ago,In a District styled E. C.,That a monster dwelt whom I came to knowBy the name of Cannibal Flea,And the brute was possessed with no other thoughtThan to live - and to live on me.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Live
  • Monster

• Sentit enim vis quisque suas quoad possit abuti.cornua nata prius vitulo quam frontibus extent,illis iratus petit atque infestus inurget.

  

  Lucretius

• It’s very important to be able to accept things, you know. Gracious acceptance is an art – an art which most of never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving.

  

  Alexander McCall Smith
  • Important
  • Art
  • Giving

• If I was the Jackie Robinson of golf, I sure didn't do a very good job of it. Jackie was followed by hundreds of great black ballplayers who have transformed their sport... But there are hardly any black kids coming up through the ranks of golf today.

  

  Charlie Sifford
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• Have Tottenham closed the gap on Arsenal? Last time I checked they were still 4 miles and 11 titles away

  

  Arsene Wenger
  • Arsenal
  • Tottenham
  • Checked

• If anyone has the opportunity to work with that woman, jump at it. She is the most generous, most giving director I have ever worked with in my entire life. She is classy. She speaks a dozen difference languages.

  

  Tituss Burgess
  • Giving
  • Opportunity
  • Language

• The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • People
  • World
  • Attitude

• The biggest problems with movies are expectations.

  

  Frank Oz