George Clooney Quotes

I find that as you get older, you start to simplify things in general.

George Clooney

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• I love things that are harsh and things that are too loud. And I love lulling people into a false sense of security. That's life.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Life
  • Sense

• My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • America
  • High
  • See

• Well yes, my son was bar mitzvahed last April, after I made this film.

  

  Jami Gertz
  • Son
  • April

• The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Great

• It's an honor to see that green jacket in the bedroom closet, but I'm not going to become somebody else because I won the Masters.

  

  Bubba Watson
  • Honor
  • Green

• I'm interested in food and sharing my passion with a community of like-minded people. All of the celebrity stuff that comes along with that is just an incidental byproduct of being able to do what I love for a living.

  

  Alex Guarnaschelli
  • People
  • Food
  • Community

• One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.

  

  Phil Hartman
  • Up
  • Career
  • Progress

• There are black marriages that are still going strong 40 years later. You hear so many myths that there aren't any people making it, but there are. As long as there are some, there's hope.

  

  Jill Scott
  • People
  • Long
  • Hope

• For a franchise system to work well, you really need people with an entrepreneurial mind-set because, while you have a large, overarching system that everybody has to work with, a lot of local issues have to be handled.

  

  Fred DeLuca
  • People
  • Work
  • Mind

• However much in the foreground depression feels, you are separate to it. This is going to sound cheesy, but I'd say you are the sky. A cloud comes and dominates the sky. But the sky is still the sky. Depression tells you everything is going to get worse, but that's a symptom. Don't give depression power - constantly discredit it.

  

  Matt Haig
  • Power
  • Sky
  • Depression

• I'm still very critical of myself in film.

  

  Annette Bening

• Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization.

  

  Dwight Yoakam
  • Independent
  • Marketing

• Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the roles of the musicians. It's all in little boxes. The reason you get child prodigies in chess, arithmetic, and classical composition is that they are all worlds of discontinuous, parceled-up possibilities.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Up
  • Music
  • Chess

• I have a lot of amazing women, you know, women in my life who have been an example for me of what not to do.

  

  Jennifer Aniston
  • Life
  • Women
  • Amazing

• I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from... you heterosexuals.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • People
  • Gay

• Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Why
  • Sex
  • Advice

• I think it's really important to mix cardio with toning, so I love boxing and then add in Pilates or ballet to keep me long and lean and avoid bulking up.

  

  Lily Aldridge
  • Up
  • Important
  • Long

• If you don't tell people about your success, they probably won't know about it.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Success

• I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me.

  

  Herb Ritts
  • California
  • Certain
  • Exposure

• The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many "in shallows and in miseries," are the decrees of a large, far-seeing benevolence.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Strong
  • Poverty
  • Weak

• When I was three, I lived in Florida, and my mom took me to see the touring production of 'Cats.' And I was, like, absolutely silent - which for a 3-year-old never happens - and I turned to her and said, 'I need to do this.' That's when I started my performer journey.

  

  Milly Shapiro
  • Started
  • Production
  • Touring

• Segmenting your sample is one of the easiest ways to simplify.

  

  Bobby Bragan
  • Ways
  • Sample
  • Simplify

• I find that as you get older, you start to simplify things in general.

  

  George Clooney
  • Simplify