John Williams Quotes

I think of myself as a film composer.

John Williams

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• Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Diversity
  • Just
  • Big

• The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Up
  • Technology
  • Simplicity

• Europe can be saved.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Europe
  • Saved

• It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • World
  • Live
  • Example

• I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Life
  • Rich
  • Personal

• I talk to younger actor types, and they bring up that word, 'brand,' and it's like, 'All right, if that's the way you want to look at yourself.' Diet Pepsi's a brand; you're a human being.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Want
  • Yourself

• If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next generation will suffer if we destroy our natural surroundings. So without a doubt, they need to learn that nature is vital to us by experiencing it. I want them to like nature and to climb mountains and so on.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • People
  • Children
  • Nature

• I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Kids
  • Small
  • Movies

• 3D printers give us what we've all been craving: another reason to talk to technical support. When you finally get the thing working, though, you'll be able to print out your grocery list as a cube! When you look up directions online, you can print the map out on a globe!

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Up
  • Support
  • Reason

• I climb mountains.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Mountains
  • Climb

• I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Up
  • Home
  • Reading

• Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Health care
  • Initiative
  • Low

• I know I should feel anger at my father for certain things. But since he died when I was 11, I never got to that point.

  

  Nathaniel Kahn
  • Father
  • Know
  • Anger

• The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time … love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • Time
  • Women
  • Charity

• I'm in a generation where MAC is the reigning brand for a lot of women - black, white, and other.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Women
  • Black

• The Sunni militants that make up ISIS are not the underlying problem in Syria and Iraq, but rather they are a symptom of other deeper problems.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Up

• When people get scared, they quit giving.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • People
  • Giving

• If there was a way to bring someone back, would you do it, no matter what the consequences might be? I know that for me, my logical mind says, 'Of course not!' But the truth is, when you lose someone who is so close to you, it's as if they are a part of you; there's always one more thing to say, one more moment you wish you'd had.

  

  Jennifer McMahon
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Wish

• Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.

  

  Brian Greene

• Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

  

  James M. Barrie
  • Rainbow

• I think of myself as a film composer.

  

  John Williams