John Landgraf Quotes

I want the humans to be able to hold their own against the strength of the machines.

John Landgraf

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• The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Heart
  • Doctor
  • Satisfied

• A company logo may be the last thing cost-conscious CEOs focus on when they're looking to jump-start growth. Which is perhaps why it took more than two decades for White Mountain Footwear, a privately held shoe manufacturer based in Lisbon, N.H., to finally give its own emblem some serious thought.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Why
  • May
  • Focus

• Some of the stuff that Wilmer wears is bad. And Debra Jo.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Bad
  • Stuff
  • Some

• Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • High
  • Want
  • Matter

• There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. If she is confirmed, Solicitor General Kagan will bring the Supreme Court to an historical high-water mark, with three women concurrently serving as Justices.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • Women
  • She
  • High

• It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Important
  • Children
  • You

• I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.

  

  Lanford Wilson
  • Obsessed
  • Atom Bomb

• I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • College
  • Arts
  • Golden

• The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Matter

• Amidst globalisation, trends are becoming worldwide, so it's important to take a unique approach to what fashion has to offer. Be yourself in the middle of it all; fashion shouldn't be 'try hard.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Fashion
  • Unique

• I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• My aunt in Texas, when she did the hazing things, they had girls swallow oysters. They'd wrap an oyster in dental floss, swallow them, and then pull them back up.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Up
  • She
  • Texas

• This is one of the factors that also made me very much want to make this film, apart from the fact that I loved it. If the boy hadn't been Jewish and the man hadn't been Muslim, it wouldn't have made any difference to the film. I don't think it's relevant, really.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Want
  • Man
  • Me

• My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Life
  • Important
  • She

• The truth is that I've always wanted to be an actor, ever since I was a child. I used to see these English movies which were shown to us in our school every Saturday, and then I used to enact the hero's part in my head.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • School
  • Truth
  • English

• I know I'm never going to probably see the Taj Mahal or, you know, climb Mt. Everest, but I can still maybe influence peoples' way of thinking by a story that I do, by something I learn about the world.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Influence

• What I enjoy most is doing something I've never done before.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Done
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• Our most urgent problem just now is how to preserve in a positive and critical form the soul of truth in the two great traditions, classical and Christian, that are crumbling as mere dogma.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Soul

• Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Success
  • Road
  • Failure

• When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • People

• We are an important check on the powers of the executive. Our consent is necessary for the president to appoint jurists and powerful government officials and, in many respects, to conduct foreign policy. Whether we are of the same party, we are not the president's subordinates. We are his equal!

  

  John McCain
  • Important
  • Party
  • Powerful

• I knew it was really, really popular when my granny told me she watched it, and was addicted. When your granny is interested, you know you're on to a winner.

  

  Davina McCall
  • Popular
  • Addiction
  • Winner

• The main aim is to up my game at every possible turn without compromise.

  

  Nicky Romero
  • Game
  • Compromise
  • Turn

• I want the humans to be able to hold their own against the strength of the machines.

  

  John Landgraf