John Williams Quotes

I'm happy to be busy. I'm happy to have a wonderful family.

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• I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

  

  Sade Adu
  • People
  • Time
  • Shy

• When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Why
  • Society
  • Health

• The signs of climate change are visible across the nation, from the drought-stricken fields of Central California to the flooded streets of Michigan. Extreme weather is turning people's lives upside down and costing communities millions of dollars in damaged infrastructure and added health care costs.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Change
  • Health

• The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Love
  • Faith
  • For Her

• I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Think
  • Opportunity
  • Feel

• No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • Man
  • Funny

• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Fighting

• 'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Failure
  • Illusion
  • Himself

• It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Game
  • Fighting
  • Loser

• These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Power
  • Leader

• What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • Time
  • Work
  • Experience

• I have worries and fears just like everybody else. But I have every reason to wake up each morning and be very happy.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Morning

• One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Life
  • School
  • Home

• Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

  

  Pamela Hansford Johnson
  • Believe
  • Man
  • You

• You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Job
  • Kids
  • Wife

• Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • History
  • Past
  • Study

• When I was a child, I saw in the news that a person from Belitung had done well in sports in Jakarta, and I just couldn't imagine that it was possible for someone from here to become famous, and it's still very isolated out here.

  

  Andrea Hirata
  • Done
  • Sports
  • Famous

• Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird.

  

  Lisa Bonet
  • People
  • Success
  • Weird

• I think the philosophy that you have to have if you travel frequently is, stuff is just stuff. Even if it has some sentimental or family connection, if you lose it in the world, it's still just a thing, and I think if you don't have that attitude, you will get incredibly stressed out and not enjoy your travels.

  

  Leila Janah
  • World
  • Family
  • Travel

• [A] society which makes freedom its primary goal will lose it, because it has made, not responsibility, but freedom from responsibility, its purpose. When freedom is the basic emphasis, it is not responsible speech which is fostered but irresponsible speech.

  

  R.J. Rushdoony
  • Society
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility

• When you make a melody that doesn't come with words from the get-go, sometimes you're just thinking about random vowel sounds that go with it - and it's really, really hard to write lyrics that actually obey the vowel sounds.

  

  David Longstreth
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Sometimes

• I'm happy to be busy. I'm happy to have a wonderful family.

  

  John Williams
  • Family
  • Happy