George Clooney Quotes
My parents were disappointed I didn't finish college, and they were really upset when I went to Hollywood to become an actor. I was a big disappointment to them.
Quotes to Explore
-
In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.
-
With the rapid growth of Internet users in China bringing online video into a new paradigm, the market scale we first envisioned as an online video website back in 2006 has grown significantly.
-
I brought several national projects to Katihar.
-
I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.
-
Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
-
We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
-
I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
-
All reactionaries are paper tigers.
-
The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
-
Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
-
I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.
-
When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
-
When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.
-
Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me.
-
I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
-
Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
-
What's really good is African drum music.
-
The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
-
What got me motivated was my dad's idea that I go to Morehouse College in Atlanta. It's an all-black, all-male school. Martin Luther King went there. The most famous person in my class was Spike Lee. And I really caught fire. I was so inspired by the people around me that I went from C's and D's to straight A's by the time I left.
-
It's a parent's dream come true to watch your sons play at the highest level of college basketball.
-
Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.
-
My parents were disappointed I didn't finish college, and they were really upset when I went to Hollywood to become an actor. I was a big disappointment to them.
