John Hughes Quotes

It's been about ten years since I've worked with actors who knew their lines!

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• As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Dead
  • Ghost
  • Civil

• I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Cool
  • Calm
  • Stay

• I'm not a machista that tells his girl what she has to put on. I let her be herself.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Girl
  • Clothes
  • Machista

• It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Game
  • Fighting
  • Loser

• India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Democracy
  • India
  • DNA

• In my own experience, I've found that it's very difficult to make peace with women. We tend to be competitive and feel angry.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • Women
  • Experience
  • Peace

• When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Up
  • Hate

• If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Day
  • Year
  • Shaving

• Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Time
  • Long
  • Understand

• I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Years
  • Dead
  • Just

• I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Power
  • Help
  • Know

• Fortified plant-based milks are delicious and contain all the calcium, protein, and vitamin D of dairy products but with none of the cholesterol, lactose, hormones, or cruelty found in cow's milk.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Plant
  • Products
  • Milk

• A song in a musical works best when a character has to sing - when words won't do the trick anymore. The same idea applies to a long speech in a play or a movie or on television. You want to force the character out of a conversational pattern.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Long
  • Character
  • Movie

• Think about Medusa, with the snakes. If you shoot a movie in Europe, the financiers are three snakes, and they all have opinions. In Hollywood there are, like, 20 snakes.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Three

• My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Life
  • Father
  • Dad

• I would love to play a superhero. I sometimes walk around thinking, 'If I were a superhero, what would my superpower be?'

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Thinking
  • Play
  • Superhero

• I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock.

  

  Inara George
  • Different
  • Mother
  • Father

• Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Smart
  • Really
  • Thinkers

• The Information Age is, first and foremost, an education age, in which education must start at birth and continue throughout a lifetime. Last year, from this podium, I said that education has to be our highest priority. I have something to say to every family listening to us tonight: Your children can go on to college.... Because of the things that have been done, we can make college as universal in the 21st century as high school is today. And, my friends, that will change the face and future of America.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Information Age
  • Education Age

• I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird that flies away.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • World
  • Bird
  • Stronger

• I'm grateful I know what it's like to be unemployed for long periods of time.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Time
  • Long

• You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • World

• Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don't go along with that. The memories I value most, I don't see them ever fading.

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Value
  • Memories

• It's been about ten years since I've worked with actors who knew their lines!

  

  John Hughes