John Green Quotes

It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions.

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• We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Would
  • Push
  • Probability

• Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Enemy

• All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Joy
  • Sorrow
  • Out

• Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Happy
  • Person
  • Eighty

• I do watch a lot of YouTube.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Watch
  • Lot
  • YouTube

• I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?

  

  Halsey
  • Up
  • Music
  • Dark

• Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Know
  • Nice
  • Finish

• When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.

  

  Manika
  • World
  • Experience
  • Audience

• My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Great
  • Family
  • Mother

• My awkward stage extended well into high school.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Heart

• All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.

  

  Aaliyah
  • God
  • Hope
  • Hands

• If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Work
  • Challenge
  • Goals

• Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Israel
  • Bank
  • West

• I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Long
  • Pretty

• Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Done
  • Strong
  • Team

• I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Political
  • Decisions

• In the '80s, I got tired of the rat race. It was a terrible time for music. I wasn't part of that whole MTV craze. I did 'Go Ahead and Rain,' which was Madeleine Stowe's first bit, but felt no connection to it. I went many years where I didn't have to work.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• I know doing movies is where I need to be. That's where my audience wants to see me.

  

  Bernie Mac

• All of humanity now has the option to "make it" successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Mind
  • Humanity
  • Option

• Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Great
  • Light
  • Universe

• I do follow cleansing and hydrate my skin. It is really important. Especially before going to bed, you have to remove make-up, clean your skin, and hydrate your skin.

  

  Disha Patani
  • Up
  • Important

• John Kerry is busy trying to raise money right now for his campaign. It was reported today that Kerry's hoping to raise $80 million before the Democratic convention. That's a lot of money. Yeah, Kerry has two ways to raise the $80 million: soliciting Democratic donors and going through his wife's purse.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Today

• It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions.

  

  John Green
  • Money
  • Movie