Peter Falk Quotes

The entertainment industry is loaded with extraordinarily talented people. But the true, genuine originals, they're rare.

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• The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • American
  • Chaos

• What's genius about 'Gravity' is that you are close upon the actors, but 3D works best when you have foreground, middle ground and background.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Best
  • Genius
  • Gravity

• The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Black
  • Powerful

• People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Know
  • Economics

• Are people like Tom Cruise in touch with their public? I doubt it. Footballers are more like the rock stars of yester-year: they are box office.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Rock
  • Doubt

• Whether it is Obamacare, the stimulus, Wall Street bailouts, the food safety bill - on vote after vote, Bill Nelson has chosen to side with Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and President Obama over the people of Florida.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • People
  • Food
  • Wall

• Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.

  

  Laurance Rockefeller
  • People
  • Lifestyle
  • Finding

• Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Live
  • City

• Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • Home
  • You
  • Hat

• I cannot in any case permit myself to be brought before the people, exclusively, by any of the political parties that now so unfortunately divide our country, as their candidate for office.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • People
  • Country
  • Political

• Who is that person that comes around and says, 'You are OK, you are worthy, you are special?' That makes all the difference in the world for many of us. Those are the people we appreciate the most.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • World
  • Appreciate

• We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Different
  • Nature

• To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize and to accomplish things together.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • People
  • Together
  • Rich

• My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of these people.

  

  Rajneesh
  • People
  • House
  • Grandfather

• It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • People
  • Children
  • True

• When I'm playing a team sport, it's not about one individual, it's about everyone, from me to the other 23 people who were there, to all the support staff who've worked very hard behind the scenes.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Team
  • Support

• When you tell people you are a model, they have a very narrow view of who you are, and it's good to be able to say that it's not all that I am.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • People
  • Model
  • View

• Having your stuff online - some people think of it as gimmicky, but in a way, it's one of the most pure forms of having your work judged.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• If you give an answer to your viewer, your film will simply finish in the movie theatre. But when you pose questions, your film actually begins after people watch it. In fact, your film will continue inside the viewer.

  

  Asghar Farhadi
  • People
  • Movie
  • Theatre

• The State of Israel was not established so that the anti-Semites will disappear but, rather, so we can tell them to get lost.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Lost
  • Israel
  • Disappear

• It's one thing to execute dishes on your own time for family and friends, but quite another to perform and be judged in a competition. And that's what cooking in a high profile restaurant is. It's a competition. You're up against every other three-star restaurant in your city, and if you want to stay in business, you'd better deliver.

  

  Joe Bastianich
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• I make movies. I have a passion. Puppies and daisies don't accomplish anything. That's not me at all.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Passion

• The entertainment industry is loaded with extraordinarily talented people. But the true, genuine originals, they're rare.

  

  Peter Falk
  • People
  • True