Jerry Della Femina Quotes

Advertising is what I do. It's got me everything I have, and I'm not going to leave it.

Jerry Della Femina

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• I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Fun
  • Best
  • Baseball

• There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Thing
  • Director
  • Cut

• I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Time
  • Great
  • Success

• In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Religious
  • Vision

• Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Future

• When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • Dignity
  • Begins
  • Boasting

• I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Love
  • Deep
  • Times

• Jason Momoa became a really good friend of ours when he played Khal Drogo. We loved hanging out with Momoa, and suddenly we couldn't bring him to Belfast anymore.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Loved

• Yes, but if you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something.

  

  Ed Wood
  • You
  • Star
  • Take

• Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Name
  • Down
  • Cotton

• When I was just starting out, I had two choices: I could be the beautiful girl on the main man's arm as decoration, or I would have to do a little independent movie to get any depth in the female character.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Beautiful

• America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • America
  • Fate
  • Become

• Yeah, I volunteered to support the troops, and get out there and show them that we care about them.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Support
  • Care
  • Show

• When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Work
  • Star
  • Working

• So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.

  

  Harold Acton
  • Real
  • Say
  • Regrets

• I had some great experiences, but there were times when films didn't do well right, especially after 'Vicky Donor.'

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Great
  • Right
  • Experiences

• The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Earth
  • Artist

• The E.U. is a common platform where we come together and agree to do certain things. But the E.U. is never going to take over the responsibility which governments have for prosperity and security of their people.

  

  Kersti Kaljulaid
  • People
  • Together
  • Responsibility

• Men, knowing not how to handle the tool of the mind, have become used to leaning on others and on habit; and, owing to that, this splendid tool, the human mind, has in fact become unreliable through neglect.

  

  Nyanaponika Thera
  • Mind
  • Handle
  • Tool

• KWMR is my radio station, and I intend to have a job there as I get older. That's what I'm lobbying for. They don't need me. They've got plenty of people. But let's see if I can make myself indispensable.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Job
  • Myself

• There's something about that idea of looking up and hoping, and thinking, 'I'm good.' Some things, like show business, are absolutely subjective. People look at a TV show and think, 'I could do that.' And maybe they could do that. But they're not.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Advertising is what I do. It's got me everything I have, and I'm not going to leave it.

  

  Jerry Della Femina