Bruce Oldfield Quotes

Don't be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more.

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• When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Film
  • Festival
  • Showing

• Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Society

• The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Moral
  • Story
  • Temporary

• The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Crime
  • Eternal

• Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • May
  • Cry
  • Milk

• The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Health
  • Medicine

• People relate to me, and I try to make songs that make people smile.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Smile
  • Songs

• Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Generation

• There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • World
  • Doors
  • Opening

• You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Want
  • Man
  • You

• I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Path
  • Choose

• Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

  

  Yoshio Taniguchi
  • Hope
  • Architecture
  • Tea

• Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Family
  • Eye
  • Building

• I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Drama

• I have a whole, whole lot of respect for the men and women that serve our country.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six Degrees of Separation,' all of that stuff. So we're very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of 'Born Yesterday.' I did 700 performances of 'They're Playing Our Song.'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Done
  • American
  • America

• Our government is ready to guarantee their investments for them, and then we will create tax incentives. We are interested in having all these things and with the privatization we also want to create more jobs and better conditions for the workers.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Want
  • Government
  • Better

• Unreal city, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Death
  • City
  • Winter

• No one pretends anymore that the Olympics are just about sports. It's routine to talk about what effect holding the Games in this or that capital will have on the host country's international reputation, how a nation's prestige can be raised by its medal count.

  

  George Packer
  • Country
  • Sports

• But I think anybody who believes I could force coach Sloan to resign is crazy. He's stronger than that and personally if I said that to him, he'd probably go tell me to go do something.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Think
  • Crazy
  • Stronger

• The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The judgment as to whether you can trust the future, the social advancement - depending on people - will be judged on where they come out on that question.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • People
  • Character
  • Future

• Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.

  

  Max Weber
  • Value

• Someone sent me an article on AI that was written by Tim Urban on the website Wait but Why - that was kind of where I stuck my toes in the puddle, and I said, 'OK, I've gotta learn about this!' I felt like this is one of those things that our generation is going to have to answer for, eventually, and I just wanted to educate myself on it.

  

  M. Shadows
  • Why

• Don't be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more.

  

  Bruce Oldfield