John Barry Quotes

Geoff Leonard knows more about me than I know myself.

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• I tweeted once, and I still stick to this, that I would love to marry a Croatian girl. I want my children to speak Croatian first, and for them to do that, we need someone who speaks very good Croatian.

  

  Nathaniel Buzolic
  • Children
  • Want
  • Girl

• I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • You
  • Purpose
  • Hustler

• Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Time
  • Work
  • Women

• I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Confidence

• Never give up, and never give in.

  

  Hal Newhouser
  • Up
  • Never
  • Give

• I'm very excited that I can get on a skateboard and skateboard down the street now. That was something I never thought I'd be able to do. I conquered my fears.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Thought
  • Down
  • Street

• 'Giving 2.0' is about making your giving matter more to the people we all hope to help, and it's about making your giving matter more to you.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • People
  • Help
  • Hope

• Basically, the myth is that America has been founded on the free market; the government has done very little; it has thrived under free trade. But actually, if you look at the history, this is actually the country that has succeeded most with protectionist policies.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Country
  • Done
  • America

• My wife will automatically quote and compare the price of diesel at every petrol station we drive by, like she's got oil-based Tourette's.

  

  Ian Watson
  • She
  • Wife
  • Drive

• I have a rule now that I can only watch a movie twice. By the third time I was watching 'The Guest,' I was hating everything about it, but the first time, I loved it. The first time you watch it, you watch it as a whole. And the second time, I think you can learn a lot. By the third time, you are just picking everything apart.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Think

• It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • Great
  • Friend
  • Best

• I am always friendly with my co-actors and even other actresses, too.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Actress
  • Friendly
  • Co-actors

• Are the new viewers gone yet?

  

  Ze Frank

• Well, if there's no 'war' that begins, but you say 'war begins', no one's going to buy your newspaper the next day because they'll be on to the fact that you don't know what you're talking about.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • War

• The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Truth
  • Present
  • Opinion

• It occurred to me that memorials shouldn't be grand. If you really want to honor the memory of a tragedy, you shouldn't create areas of calm reflection. You should make people uncomfortable. Put them in the shoes of those who perpetrated and those who suffered. Then ask, would they be able to forgive in these situations?

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • People
  • Honor
  • Shoes

• Our thoughts and our feelings, of course, are not wholly objective, they're inherently subjective. And that's the danger, and I think as long as we're aware of it and can push back against it, I don't think that these two views are necessarily incompatible.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Long
  • Thoughts

• I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

  

  Charles Lindbergh

• I made a film where nobody got shot and nobody went to see it.

  

  Sam Peckinpah
  • Film
  • See
  • Shot

• We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • Law
  • Moral

• Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • Important

• That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Art
  • Mission

• Geoff Leonard knows more about me than I know myself.

  

  John Barry