Jeff Nichols Quotes

You can watch any Hitchcock film and be blown away.

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• Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Look

• Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Money
  • Best
  • Wealth

• In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Knows
  • Countries
  • Some

• The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Being
  • Glamour
  • Forbidden

• My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Art
  • Science
  • Desire

• I have been dealing with back problems since 1995 when I was with the Blackhawks, and I've only missed part of one season because of it. That was last season in Toronto.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Problems
  • Season
  • Last

• Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Men
  • May
  • Dead

• I wasn't trying to be a role model with 'The Dutchess,' but suddenly, seeing little girls in the audience with their moms made me think about what I do onstage a little bit more. I had to watch my mouth, because it can be filthy. It changed things for me.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Change
  • Model
  • Audience

• The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Great
  • Different
  • America

• I have a message for the young kids. Life is about obstacles, endeavors in life are not to be overlooked.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Young

• Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • President
  • Just
  • Policy

• Interviewing someone is very similar to preparing a character, isn't it? You're just asking questions: 'Who is this person? Why did they make that choice? Why are they doing that?' You're being Sherlock Holmes.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Why
  • Character
  • Choice

• The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Important
  • Past
  • Military

• I don't care how loyal you think you're going to be, Dink. It's not in you. You're a brat and you always will be. So admit what a lousy follower you are, and go ahead and LEAD.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• It is a politician's business to get and hold his job at all costs. If he can hold it by lying, he will hold it by lying; if lying peters out, he will try to hold it by embracing new truths. His ear is ever close to the ground.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Business
  • Job

• The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.

  

  Allan Sherman
  • Reality

• From almost the first day they got into office, they (President Bush and Vice President Cheney) were trying to figure out how to get rid of Saddam Hussein. I’m not a psychiatrist – I don’t know all of the reasons behind their concern, some might say their obsession.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Trying

• Let us retrace our steps: I have deceived you:Nothing is here I could not frankly tell you:No hint of guilt, or faithlessness, or threat.Dreams-they are madness. Staring eyes-illusion.Let us return, hear music, and forget . . .

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Music
  • Eyes

• If you have a bereavement in your family, it's a terrible, terrible thing. But, you know, time passes. It's part of the cycle. It doesn't hurt so much.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • Time
  • Family
  • Hurt

• For me, it was a lot of hard work doing theater eight nights a week around the country, going from job to job.

  

  Brian Baumgartner
  • Work
  • Country
  • Job

• I mean, putting women in the center of a movie and not talking about men, that's already political, right? And you know, political doesn't mean that it sends this message or that is has a statement. It's also political in its aesthetic project.

  

  Celine Sciamma
  • Men
  • Political
  • Mean

• The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Population
  • Less
  • Then

• A musical film is my idea of heaven. You can pre-record, you don't have to sing live. Singing live was the bit I hated the most. I never felt like a confident singer.

  

  Billie Piper
  • Live
  • Heaven
  • Singing

• You can watch any Hitchcock film and be blown away.

  

  Jeff Nichols