Bruce Paltrow Quotes

Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing.

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• If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Money
  • Look
  • Roads

• The director had come to Madrid to court me.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Director
  • Come
  • Court

• Buying a matching blouse and skirt from the same store is a crime. A clever mix of chic and cheap hits the jackpot. Know how to mix styles and labels.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Know
  • Same
  • Clever

• I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Something
  • Without
  • Becoming

• I've taken the love of fashion from my mother, and journalism from my father.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Father

• I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Kitchen
  • Eating
  • Lifting

• I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Hate
  • Husband

• The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Truth
  • Energy

• Snowden grants that NSA employees by and large believe in their mission and trust the agency to handle the secrets it takes from ordinary people - deliberately, in the case of bulk records collection, and 'incidentally,' when the content of American phone calls and e-mails are swept into NSA systems along with foreign targets.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Political
  • Talk
  • Matters

• I'm rap's vigilante. I'm out for justice.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Justice
  • Rap
  • Vigilante

• It's always good to play tennis with a better player to bring out the best in you.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Good
  • Play
  • Best

• My parents were just really weird and protective about the music I listened to. Whenever I wanted to buy an album, they would have to buy it first and listen to it and let me know if I could have it.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Weird

• I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Time
  • Feel
  • Villains

• Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Think
  • Language
  • Magic

• But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • History
  • Future
  • Change

• A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.

  

  Lara St. John
  • World
  • Good
  • Men

• The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Work
  • Money
  • Love

• I love 'Top Chef.' I think it rewrote the book on how food shows are presented on TV.

  

  Andy Cohen
  • Book
  • Food

• With the Democrats, they see themselves, we see ourselves as the party of the working folks, the striving, you know, the good. But, without anybody acknowledging it, there is now this little camp of folks who come across as very elitist, that look down on red state voters, who think that Republicans are dumb people.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Being smart in the arts is the same as being smart in engineering is the same as being smart in writing is the same as being smart in anything, really. It's the ability to manipulate all the pieces of the puzzle in your mind, try to fit them together, and when they don't fit quite right... you sand the edges/corners and make them all fit.

  

  Gerald Jay Sussman
  • Mind
  • Smart
  • Puzzle

• People always expect you to be jumping out of a Rolls Royce and being in the papers for drunk and disorderly or sleeping around.

  

  Davy Jones The Monkees
  • People
  • Drunk

• Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing.

  

  Bruce Paltrow
  • Smart
  • Dumb