John Knoll Quotes

As soon as you take your hobby and make it into your profession, it sort of kills it as a hobby.

John Knoll

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• I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Great
  • Men
  • Man

• I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Real
  • Nice
  • Kind

• We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.

  

  Dana Perino
  • World
  • America
  • Freedom

• If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Good
  • Real
  • Character

• My instinct is to be very controlling.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Very
  • Instinct
  • Controlling

• We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Always
  • Angels
  • saw

• When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • People
  • Writing
  • Learn

• The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.

  

  Harold Washington
  • Work
  • Action
  • Third

• You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • People
  • Up
  • Hope

• Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • People
  • Experience
  • Joy

• I didn't even want to start acting when I started. At least, I never thought about it.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Want
  • Thought
  • Start

• I really do think artists are the most important people on the planet, and if what I do is a utility and helps them, then that makes me happy. I want to be helpful.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • People
  • Important
  • Happy

• In the dictionary of Satyagraha, there is no enemy.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Enemy

• There is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghostlike, the spot where some great and marked event has given the color to their lifetime; and still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Color

• Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.

  

  E. F. Schumacher

• Science has fairly turned us out of our comfortable little anthropomorphic notion of things into the great out-of-doors of the universe. We must and will get used to the chill, yea, to the cosmic chill, if need be. Our religious instincts will be all the hardier for it.

  

  John Burroughs
  • Great
  • Science
  • Universe

• I'm bisexual, but it's not the sort of thing I spent a lot of time thinking about … I've slept with girls; I've slept with guys, so I guess that's what they call it! I'm not anti trying to use language to simplify our lives.

  

  Amanda Palmer
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.

  

  Akio Morita
  • People
  • Work
  • Understanding

• The television has opened a lot of doors for me. I am very successful at what I do, and I live a good life. It's not something that I'm embarrassed of. I think it's something people should want to aspire to.

  

  Buddy Valastro
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I never understood actors who could just wait around.

  

  Scott Eastwood
  • Actors
  • Wait

• A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.

  

  Kevin Mitnick
  • Money
  • Technology

• The polar view, as it was for Marx, is that it was not material factors, but rather ideal factors, that are the main drivers of globalization.

  

  George Ritzer
  • Factors
  • Globalization
  • Drivers

• Squash has been my life and I owe a lot to the sport.

  

  Jahangir Khan
  • Life

• As soon as you take your hobby and make it into your profession, it sort of kills it as a hobby.

  

  John Knoll