George Hickenlooper Quotes

I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.

George Hickenlooper

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• You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.

  

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• You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

  

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• I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.

  

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• Nothing exists except through language.

  

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• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

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• Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.

  

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• As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
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• Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.

  

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• I'm not nervous standing with anyone.

  

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• 'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.

  

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• I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.

  

  Palmer Luckey
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• You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.

  

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• I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.

  

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• I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.

  

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• My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.

  

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• There is no greater nobility than offering one’s life to the nation and, Mr. President, your father offered his life so that this nation might be free.

  

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• I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.

  

  George Hickenlooper
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Failure