John Gokongwei Quotes
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
Carlo Ponti -
Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.
Victoria Wood -
Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
Larry Hagman -
I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
Maddie Ziegler -
Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
Harold MacMillan -
I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
Idris Elba
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
Oliver Cromwell -
Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
Lara Logan -
'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.
S. E. Hinton -
Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
Nathan Fillion -
Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
Barbara Mikulski -
If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.
Taylor Lautner
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People trash talk me.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
Gary Cherone Van Halen -
We do a lot of outbound work where we're talking about the future. As we get involved with these new products, it helps us have a platform to talk about where the future is going.
Parker Harris -
My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
Imtiaz Ali -
I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
Rahul Kohli -
Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
Fran Drescher
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I decided to get to know my opponents and their arguments.
Lech Walesa -
There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
Foster Friess -
These are children we and the schools work with every day, but they're failing because they need one-on-one supervision, and we can give them that in this program.
Vernon A. Walters -
Studies show when people yell, they get themselves even angrier. Interesting factoid: If you and/or your partner's heartbeat becomes higher than 100 beats per minute during an argument, you will not be able to fully understand/process what the other is saying.
Karen Salmansohn -
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,Most musical, most melancholy!
John Milton -
I don't rely on feng shui. I believe hard work brings us good luck and success.
John Gokongwei