Joel Silver Quotes

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• The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • Social
  • Court
  • Supreme Court

• What really matters is what's on the inside.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Really
  • Inside
  • Matters

• The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Confidence
  • Child
  • Greatest

• People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Guy
  • Me

• I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Want
  • Know
  • Me

• I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.

  

  Imelda May
  • Good
  • Money
  • Dad

• What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • She
  • Nature
  • Blessed

• We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Real
  • Job
  • Society

• I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Business
  • Nature
  • Career

• I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Bad
  • Food
  • Pleasure

• Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Mind
  • You
  • Conflict

• Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Writing
  • Like
  • Road

• Well, love motivates me in everything I do.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Love
  • Me
  • Motivates

• I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Love
  • Smart
  • Fighter

• The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Authority

• Ultimately, in the long run we need to immunise our system from being overly responsive to fluctuations in the exchange rate; that is, people should, by and large, be reasonably hedged, or they should borrow more in domestic currency rather than foreign currency.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • People
  • Long
  • Run

• Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.

  

  J. B. Morton
  • Done
  • Justice
  • Seen

• A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Work
  • She
  • Beautiful

• I like building and making things. I, perhaps, would like to try my hand at directing one day. Sometimes I fancy myself as an architect - but I think I might need to go back to school for that.

  

  Matthew James Thomas
  • School
  • Hand

• In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting, and, alas! self-seeking me.

  

  Jane Welsh Carlyle
  • World

• I'm not interested, Larry, in being a perfect, plastic pop singer that looks great in bikinis and is on the cover of every magazine. I'm more interested in helping my fans to love who they are, and helping them to reject prejudice and reject those things that they're taught from society to not like themselves, to feel like freaks, that they're not wanted.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Great
  • Society
  • Perfect

• I came from a long line of football players.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Long
  • Football

• '6 Times' is an attempt to reinvestigate the social responsibility of sculpture. The body in question is a particular body, but it doesn't really matter whose it is.

  

  Antony Gormley
  • Question
  • Responsibility

• Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.

  

  Joel Silver
  • Responsibility
  • Unique