George Hickenlooper Quotes

I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.

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• Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Life
  • Men
  • Career

• There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Night
  • Dinner
  • Fresh

• Oddly enough, Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Great
  • Enough
  • Philosophy

• You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • World
  • Believe
  • Black

• My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Dad
  • Pay
  • Worked

• My English was limited to vacationing and not really engaging with Americans. I knew 'shopping' and 'eating' English - I could say 'blue sweater,' 'creme brulee,' and 'Caesar salad,' - so I came here thinking I spoke English.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Thinking
  • English
  • Blue

• A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Future
  • Privilege
  • Citizen

• Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Think
  • Better
  • Relationships

• The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Great
  • Think
  • Changing

• I have employees that are, you know, other types of diversity, coming to me and saying 'Well, why aren't we focused on these other areas as well?' and I said yes, we should focus them, but, you know, the phrase we use internally is, 'If everything is important, then nothing is important.'

  

  Parker Harris
  • Important
  • Know
  • Focus

• I felt that it was cool to even get to the point where I was able to audition on the actual 'SNL' stage. Looking back on it, I can't believe that I wasn't more nervous.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Believe
  • Cool
  • Looking Back

• My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Birth

• 'The Sisters Brothers' started out as a little bit of dialogue between these two men who became Eli and Charlie Sisters.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Men
  • Between
  • Brothers

• We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Want
  • Government
  • Quality

• If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Paint

• Choose again.

  

  Dan Simmons

• First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • Freedom
  • Control
  • Beginning

• I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.

  

  Kiana Tom

• My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there in Greenwich Village, he met my mother, who was very young, fresh off the boat from Germany.

  

  Blake Bailey
  • School
  • Mother
  • Father

• If anything can, it is memory that will save humanity.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Humanity

• I really love the movies of Katherine Hepburn, movies like 'The African Queen.' I love 'Midnight Run' and I suppose, to pick something out of a different genre, I love 'Aliens.'

  

  Doug Liman
  • Different

• The newest Ferrari of them all, the 458, the Italia. The GT3 was good, but nowhen near as good as this... almost nothing on Earth is as good as this... Set that something I've just told, involving Cameron Diaz... and some honey... then it comes that even that isn't as good as this.

  

  Jeremy Clarkson
  • Good
  • Earth

• I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.

  

  George Hickenlooper
  • Canvas