John Milius Quotes

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

John Milius

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• No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Man
  • Intelligent
  • Down

• I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • People
  • Done
  • Progress

• Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Up
  • Like
  • Religion

• I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Time
  • Good
  • High

• We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Love
  • Result
  • Judged

• My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Emotional

• When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life's work. I couldn't sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I'm attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Garden
  • Grow
  • Flowers

• Everywhere I go, from malls to restaurants to sold-out tours overseas and back, everywhere I've been, I get nothing but love.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Love
  • Back
  • Go

• I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Up
  • Home
  • Christian

• I'm one of those tall, lanky, awkward kids.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Kids
  • Awkward
  • Tall

• The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Good
  • May
  • Bad

• Prior to 2001, hardly any company in North America or Europe would buy from India.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • America
  • Company
  • India

• In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Best
  • Practice
  • Teacher

• I'm by nature someone that quite likes to understand how things are working, likes some sense of structure, and I've fallen into the worst possible trade for that.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Nature
  • Understand
  • Possible

• When I was a kid, I loved 'Little Women.'

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Women
  • Loved
  • Kid

• I like Cleveland. I like the Cavaliers. Nothing wrong with Cleveland. I have lots of friends there.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Friends
  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• I wasn't a great background singer.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Great
  • Singer
  • Background

• If I was blond and tall, then I would have had 10 times the competition. I auditioned steadily and performed for everyone who would hire me. Now I am in a position to pick and choose my roles.

  

  Lauren Tom
  • Competition

• Feeling which has not yet emerged into immediate consciousness is already affectible and already affected. In fact, this is habit, by virtue of which an idea is brought up into the present consciousness by a bond that has already been established between it and another idea while it was still in futuro.

  

  Charles Sanders Peirce
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Present

• Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Good
  • Writing
  • May

• I did a lot of sitcoms, and being funny isn't about being beautiful. Usually, beautiful people aren't the funny people.

  

  Maura Tierney
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Funny

• In the gospel of Jesus Christ, there is no place for ridicule, bullying, or bigotry.

  

  Neil L. Andersen
  • Christ
  • Bullying
  • Bigotry

• Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

  

  John Milius