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

• 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

• 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

• We're all private people, but as a musician, I think that once you get to the point where there's more of your life behind you than in front of you, you owe it to your public to explain yourself.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • People
  • Life

• When I was in my early twenties I was doing tenant organizing - rent strikes, specifically - in my building. I think that was how I started doing poster art. It was something very concrete.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • Art
  • Building
  • Organizing

• My mother, whose interest in chemistry was rather minimal, nevertheless went to graduate school in the subject and married my father, for whom it was as important as life itself.

  

  George Akerlof
  • Life
  • Important
  • School

• Yeah, I try to be the best example I can be for young girls just as far as my person goes - just to uphold a good image.

  

  Miranda Lambert
  • Good

• In any bureaucracy, there's a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction.

  

  Chris Fussell

• Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That's applicable to any kind of depression.

  

  Judy Collins
  • Mind
  • Kind
  • Spirit

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

  

  Jeff Nichols