Janez Drnovsek Quotes

It's not just Iraq - it's the Atlantic partnership which is at stake.

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• Everyone romanticizes somebody.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Everyone
  • Somebody

• I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Together
  • Christmas
  • Lovely

• I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Right
  • Got
  • Hipster

• Religion is such an important part of so many people's lives, and I don't understand it at all.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Important
  • Religion

• I'm trying to get my head in the game, think about the questions I wanted to ask, breast milk is flying everywhere - over my notes - and I - how do you 'lean in' at that moment? What is the equivalent of that for Wolf Blitzer or Joe Scarborough?

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Trying
  • Game
  • Moment

• If you deal with information, you need the Internet. If you deal with money, you need to deal with blockchains.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Money
  • You
  • Information

• Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Start

• Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Simplicity
  • Selfishness

• 'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • She
  • Me
  • Name

• Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call 'global challenges,' which require global solidarity.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Small
  • Change
  • Respect

• I want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in 'Batman 2'.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Want

• My role in the White House was grossly exaggerated by the press. Fortunately for the American people, when the president had to make a critical economic decision or a decision on a weapons system, he did not turn to me and say, 'Hamilton, what in the hell do I do?'

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • American
  • House

• Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of time there - I write up there. So I kind of have the best of both worlds and I love going up there.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Up
  • Time
  • Country

• The thing that's worked for me is having as much of a connection to the material as possible. And sometimes the material requires a more straightforward approach, and sometimes it requires a little more silliness, you know?

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Know
  • Connection
  • Material

• There is an element of mystique to radio, and I often listen to cricket commentary on radio, especially when one is stuck in a traffic jam.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Listen
  • Cricket
  • Traffic

• When you're from another country, you want to spend time with your family. All your family can't come here. All your friends can't come here. You spend so much time here, you want to go there, too.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Time
  • Country
  • Family

• Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Long
  • Art
  • Through

• I went to - I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years, I accumulated a lot of knowledge, but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.

  

  John Lithgow
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• Our parents were musicians.

  

  Caroline Corr
  • Parents

• Leni Riefenstahl was the one person Goebbels had no control over in the filmmaking community of Nazi Germany, and they despised each other. But because she was Hitler's favorite, she could do what she wanted. She was the only filmmaker that did not have to cow down to Joseph Goebbels.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • She
  • Community
  • Control

• It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to the end for which He formed them; and that these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces; no ordinary power being able to divide what God had made one in the first creation.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • God
  • Matter
  • Formed

• It's not just Iraq - it's the Atlantic partnership which is at stake.

  

  Janez Drnovsek