John Hughes Quotes

If I'm on a roll, and I finish a script at 3:00, I'll start another at 3:02.

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• You honestly can't go wrong with All Saints. I live in their leather!

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Live
  • You
  • Leather

• The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Bad
  • Respect
  • Government

• I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Control
  • Problem

• If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Love
  • Business
  • Respect

• Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Disney
  • Almost
  • Deeply

• I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people.

  

  Hans Blix
  • People
  • May
  • Job

• Sometimes, I don't like making emotions your career; something about it is kind of gross. But, at the same time, I want to move people the same way the songs make me feel.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • People
  • Time
  • Career

• While everyone is focused on security and civil liberties, Trump's Cabinet of billionaires will try to quietly push through even more extreme measures to enrich themselves and their class, like dismantling Social Security or auctioning off major pieces of government for profit.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Government
  • Trump
  • Try

• But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.

  

  Nathaniel Smith
  • Money
  • May
  • Man

• Plato is correct about democracy. It is essentially mob rule. And once the mob gets an idea into its collective head, it’s almost impossible to get it out, or modify it in any way. In an era of mass communication and irresponsible media, it can be a deadly characteristic.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Democracy
  • Communication
  • Plato

• Of all the needs a book has, the chief need is that it be readable.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Book

• I'm not saying M.B.A.s can't be great entrepreneurs. They can. But you don't need a degree to figure out it's costing you $5,000 per month to run your business, so you need $30,000 to keep it going for six more months.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Great
  • Business

• No sooner than I did take it seriously, I had million-selling hits and movies with John Wayne.

  

  Frankie Avalon

• I think the first time I was ever really conscious of the difference between people's voices was that my mother's voice was so soft and gentle and her pronunciation was so perfect.

  

  Marian Seldes
  • People
  • Time
  • Mother

• Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.

  

  Eric Fellner
  • Good

• If I'm working, I'm not D.J.'ing. And if I'm not working, I'm D.J.'ing all the time.

  

  Danny Masterson
  • Time

• The creative process taps into our deepest subconscious, and we are each of us sex-crazed - products of a shame-based Judeo-Christian culture that has irrevocably warped us all to varying degrees.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Culture
  • Christian
  • Sex

• I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people. My wants and needs are the same as theirs. I don't look at sexual orientation as that big of a deal. It's just an orientation.

  

  Chaz Bono
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• I had been working on this series called 'Everything Dies,' and it was basically me doing non-fiction essays, responding to religion and stuff like that, and I really got into this ideas of telling factual stories via comics.

  

  Box Brown

• I was just standing around and suddenly I was cast as an extra. I hated it because I was so shy.

  

  Dwayne Hickman

• There's no such thing as a self-made man. I've had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • People
  • Work
  • Men

• You might think that you're ruined. You might think you're defeated. If you love what you're doing you've already succeeded.

  

  George Watsky
  • Defeated
  • Ruined
  • Succeeded

• If I'm on a roll, and I finish a script at 3:00, I'll start another at 3:02.

  

  John Hughes