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

• Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Good
  • Country
  • Business

• 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

• Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Rest
  • Enjoy
  • Ignore

• 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

• Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Science
  • Imagination
  • Unseen

• If you're a competitor, you want to win. That's enough to play for, simple as that.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Want
  • Simple
  • Win

• 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

• My mother wanted me to be a reader. She was a reader. Even though she had an 11th-grade education, she was curious about all kinds of things - archeology, anthropology.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
  • She
  • Mother
  • Education

• We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

  Antony Sher

• When you're filming for seven months or six months at a time, you bond with people hugely.

  

  Anna Popplewell
  • People
  • Time

• Midnight is the time when we think, 'Well, we should probably send our last email; let me just check Facebook one more time.'

  

  Matthew Walker
  • Time

• The information glut has become a ruling cliche. As all resources - from energy to information - become more abundant, the presure of economic scarcity falls ever more heavily on one key residual, and that single shortage looms ever more stringent and controlling. The governing scarcity of the information economy is time: the shards of a second, the hours in a day, the years in a life, the latency of memory, the delay in aluminum wires, the time to market, the time to metastasis, the time to retirement.

  

  George Gilder
  • Energy
  • Fall
  • Memories

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

  

  Bruce Oldfield