John Hughes Quotes

My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on.

John Hughes

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• Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Change

• What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Doing
  • Something
  • Pollution

• My father had a lot of allergies, and he just didn't like the cold of Chicago, and his father - his parents had broken up when he was young, and his father had lived in Pasadena for a while, and he kind of fell in love with Southern California.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Father
  • Parents
  • Young

• I like sports, and swimming is my favorite. Doing physical exercises keeps one fit and healthy and helps one work more efficiently. I think we all need to strike a balance between work and relaxation. This can keep us energetic and help us do our job better.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • Work
  • Job
  • Help

• Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Music
  • Professionalism

• Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Want
  • Way
  • You

• Serving up ads based on behavioral targeting can itself be an invasion of privacy, especially when the information used is personal.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Up
  • Information
  • Privacy

• When you talk about avant-garde cuisine, the surprise factor is really important. For example, I love looking at blogs and the photos, but I'm not that keen on other people taking photos of my dishes.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • People
  • Important
  • Love

• I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the theater and in live television.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Live
  • Interesting
  • Me

• Sooner or later, Israel will have to defeat Hamas. There is no way around it.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Way
  • Israel
  • Defeat

• I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I want to touch people's hearts, to get right down to their souls.

  

  Laura Branigan
  • People
  • Want
  • Down

• Turn yo stomach to spaghetti when it hit the groundToss the choppers in the chevy then we mashin downCamelton, countin' all yo Benjamins and HamiltonsAs far as I'm concerned you just a job for the janitor

  

  T.I.
  • Job

• From my youth upwardsMy spirit walk'd not with the souls of men,Nor look'd upon the earth with human eyes;The thirst of their ambition was not mine,The aim of their existence was not mine;My joys, my griefs, my passions, and my powersMade me a stranger.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Eyes

• The perception of beauty is a moral test.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Moral
  • Perception

• If you should ever leave me Though life would still go on, believe me The world could show nothing to me So what good would livin' do me God only knows what I'd be without you…

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• When terrorists blew up the Marine barracks in Lebanon, Reagan was frustrated and furious, as Bush was after 9/11. But he didn't stick us in a war in the Middle East with no exit.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Up
  • War
  • Marine

• I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go. I always say it's gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • People
  • Political
  • Science

• My only hobby is going for walks outdoors.

  

  Bidzina Ivanishvili

• Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• I really don't have a guilty pleasure.

  

  Ann Marie Buerkle
  • Guilty

• It's always fun to be the underdog and surprise people. It certainly puts less pressure on you.

  

  Derek Drouin
  • People
  • Fun

• I've come to find out everybody loves ol' David Allan Coe, even people like Kid Rock.

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott
  • People
  • Rock

• My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on.

  

  John Hughes