John Heard Quotes

If Martin Scorsese thinks you stink, you stink.

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• I got to write most of everything I said.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Said
  • Everything
  • Got

• Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Children
  • Words
  • Innocent

• I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Writing
  • Lucky
  • Very

• To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • God
  • Today
  • Ignorance

• You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Hero
  • Brave

• Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Together
  • Opportunity
  • Go

• I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Good
  • Different
  • Long

• You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• The place where you're from defines who you are. You put yourself in the wrong situation, the wrong things happen.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Yourself
  • Place
  • Situation

• I always knew I'd go to space.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Space
  • Always
  • Go

• Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Class
  • Birth
  • Determined

• When you're doing a Broadway show, you have no free time.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Time
  • Free
  • Doing

• Getting to fight at the AT&T Stadium is a huge privilege for me and my career.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Career
  • Me
  • Fight

• It's fun seeing my label on someone's behind - I like that.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Fun
  • Seeing
  • Behind

• I like things all shined up and rocking with hooky pop choruses.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Up
  • Like
  • Things

• If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Death

• I beefed with 50 Cent for seven years.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Years
  • Seven
  • 50 Cent

• Let your customers be your partners; let your vendors be your employees. What's necessary in this transformation more than anything else is courage and a willingness to change.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Change
  • Courage
  • Transformation

• I'm Colombian-American. My father wanted me to have American citizenship, but he wanted to raise me in Colombia.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • American
  • Father

• Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract thought, but because of various problems with the authorities I wasn't able to pull that one off. A lifetime of idleness in academia would have really suited me. So I was thrown out, as it were. Other than that, there seemed no possible idle occupations, so writing . . . although writing isn't exactly idleness. There's an enormous tension between indolence and languor.

  

  Will Self
  • World
  • Writing
  • Problem

• Getting to be involved with fashion is one of the coolest things I've done.

  

  Bethany Cosentino
  • Fashion
  • Involved

• You always look so cool, like no matter what happens, it’s got nothing to do with you, but you’re not really like that. In your own way, you’re out there fighting as hard as you can, even if other people can’t tell by looking at you.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Fighting
  • Happens
  • Looking

• They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.

  

  Peter Mandelson
  • Peace

• If Martin Scorsese thinks you stink, you stink.

  

  John Heard