John Gordon Sinclair Quotes

I definitely don't see myself as an actor. I don't even have it on my passport. I've got 'writer and electrician' on my passport. I don't want anyone to think I'm an actor.

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• When I write a movie, I write it for me.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Write

• Our own CIA has a storied history of interfering in elections. In the late '40s, we shoveled cash into France and Italy after World War II to defeat the Communists who had been part of the wartime resistance to the Nazis and Fascists.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • War
  • History

• I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.

  

  Ed Emberley
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Know

• Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Up
  • Music
  • Never

• I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Proud
  • Never
  • Say

• The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Power
  • Church
  • Thought

• I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Life
  • Work
  • Father

• We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Strong
  • Powerful
  • Military

• When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it's light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.

  

  Yves Rossy
  • World
  • Light
  • Dark

• It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that?

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Know
  • Somebody
  • Compete

• I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Form
  • Discrimination
  • Favor

• Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Good
  • Dangerous
  • Patriotism

• Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Society
  • Religion
  • Islam

• The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • World
  • Down
  • Detail

• Never give up, have the passion. Don't be afraid.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Up
  • Passion
  • Give

• I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Best

• You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Soul
  • Yourself
  • Emotions

• The only advice you can give is, 'Don't let the bad stuff keep you down.'

  

  George A. Romero
  • Bad
  • Advice

• It's a very, very interesting experience to be talking to people who are such icons in their own right. When Adele came to a show, I was just talking to her, and at the time, I thought, 'I'm just having a chat with somebody.' But then I heard myself say, 'Oh, I was talking to Adele the other day,' and it's as strange as you'd imagine.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • People
  • Time
  • Experience

• There's always competition out there. That's what makes life exciting.

  

  Carolyn Murphy
  • Competition
  • Exciting

• The people of the world can live together in peace. We know that is God's vision. Now, that must be our work here on Earth.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• People were expecting Rouge to go bankrupt, so there was a lot of anxiety. The corporate culture problem was even worse than in Russia. And at the same time, the work rules were more difficult.

  

  Alexei Mordashov
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I definitely don't see myself as an actor. I don't even have it on my passport. I've got 'writer and electrician' on my passport. I don't want anyone to think I'm an actor.

  

  John Gordon Sinclair