Joel Silver Quotes

I did my acting performance in 'Roger Rabbit.' I think I did a voice-over also in 'Osmosis Jones' and I directed an episode of my show years ago, 'Tales from the Crypt' and that's my endeavors in the non-producer oriented ranks.

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• Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

  

  Frances Perkins
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Trees

• You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Time
  • You
  • Where

• All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Life
  • Scars
  • Shallow

• If you don't have a Facebook, like, you're nobody. There's all of these sort of requirements now, and if you don't have all of these things - Facebook, Twitter, etc. - you're made fun of. And Twitter for celebrities... everything is just getting so personal. Pictures of yourself, of what you're eating for breakfast.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Breakfast

• Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.

  

  Walter Lang
  • God
  • Man
  • Creation

• I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Up
  • Great
  • School

• The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Women
  • History

• I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Day
  • Like
  • Tomorrow

• I never really ate that bad, I just ate too much. It wasn't like I had to switch to whole wheat bread or something like that. I really just had to eat less of what I was eating, and I had to exercise more.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Bad
  • Exercise
  • Eating

• Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Learning
  • Survival
  • Neither

• So much of western self-perception and intellectual worldview has been shaped by the moral rhetoric of the Cold War, the discourse in which communism featured as a clear enemy, determined to rule the world.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • War
  • Moral

• Once the federal dust settles, whether there is little to spend or a lot, education must continue to be our top priority. We can afford nothing less.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Education
  • Nothing
  • Priority

• Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Playing
  • Writer
  • Soccer

• By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • You
  • Hands
  • Clock

• I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Movies

• Great quarterbacks, good quarterbacks, make plays.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Good
  • Great
  • Plays

• I'm a carb-y person. I love pastries and whatnot.

  

  Kimiko Glenn

• The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Desire
  • Missing
  • Alien

• I ended up working in Michigan for a young company called Sycor out of Michigan, worked there, and that company got bought by Northern Telecom. We became the Bell Northern Research Labs of Northern Telecom.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Up
  • Young
  • Company

• I've been around since I was 19, I won the Oscar when I was 21, I've had a couple of TV series. I've continued to work despite the predictions of some naysayers.

  

  Marlee Matlin
  • Work
  • Couple

• I did my acting performance in 'Roger Rabbit.' I think I did a voice-over also in 'Osmosis Jones' and I directed an episode of my show years ago, 'Tales from the Crypt' and that's my endeavors in the non-producer oriented ranks.

  

  Joel Silver