Joel Edgerton Quotes

Gene Hackman was a superstar in the '70s - with that face!

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• My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Day
  • Week
  • Grandfather

• The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Great
  • Men
  • Great Men

• The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Words
  • Best
  • Sometimes

• Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • War
  • Politics
  • Without

• I knew the ribosome was going to be the focus of Nobel prizes. It stands at the crossroads of biology, between the gene and what comes out of the gene. But I had convinced myself I was not going to be a winner.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Focus
  • Myself
  • Winner

• But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Live
  • Creation
  • Gymnastics

• People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.

  

  Fionnula Flanagan
  • People
  • Great
  • Silence

• We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

  

  Major Owens
  • High
  • Technology
  • Quality

• I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Honor

• There's a lot to be said for not displacing people.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Said
  • Lot

• You can get stale writing with each other for a while.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Writing
  • You
  • Other

• Mom still has a huge, beautifully decorated Christmas tree. The whole family comes together after midnight mass and has the traditional plum cake and wine. We spend the night at mom's home, and in the morning we wake up and open the presents. In the afternoon, we sit down to have a traditional Christmas lunch.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Up
  • Family
  • Home

• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Reality
  • Vision
  • Leadership

• I think comedy does have that powerful thing that doesn't seem too preachy because you're also making people laugh, so it's really kind of a good tool for messaging.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Good
  • Comedy

• My life motto is basically to lower your standards and expectations so you're never disappointed and never put any trust in anything, and I try to prepare for the day that I wake up, and everyone I know is like, 'LOL JK best long-running practical joke ever', so I've never really let myself freak out or get too excited about anything.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Believe
  • America
  • Future

• Belief and work, knowledge and action are one and the same thing.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Work
  • Knowledge
  • Action

• So I've learnt that the world is 4,500 million years old. If you're very religious, then it's not 4,500 million years old, it's 6,000 years old. One of these is not correct.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • World
  • Religious

• All I ask the haters – is that they strive to perfect their contempt, even consider bringing it to bear on poems, where it will be deepened, not dispelled, and where, by creating a place for possibility and present absences, it might come to resemble love.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Perfect
  • Present
  • Haters

• Then I usually leave the choice of the second assistant director and any other assistant directors to the first assistant director, who will choose because he or she is responsible for the conduct and the efficiency of the second assistant directors.

  

  John Frankenheimer
  • She

• If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Women
  • American
  • Politics

• We are a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.

  

  Bob Inglis

• The time of day we choose for prayer doesn't matter, so long as we keep it faithfully. Prayer must be part of the rhythm of our daily lives.

  

  Bill Hybels
  • Time
  • Long
  • Prayer

• Gene Hackman was a superstar in the '70s - with that face!

  

  Joel Edgerton