Jonathan Demme Quotes
The media has not done a great job in fulfilling their role - journalism's role in a democracy is to provide information on profoundly important subjects so we're an informed citizenry.Jonathan Demme
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
Ed Wood -
When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
Ma Jian -
I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
Patricia Velasquez -
You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.
Daniel Bryan -
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Napoleon Hill -
If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
Samuel Beckett
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
Sam Hunt -
I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.
Lance Henriksen -
In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
Edgar Meyer -
For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.
Larry Hogan -
There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
Iman
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Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.
LaMarr Woodley -
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso -
America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
Edmund White -
I just want to be really clear about this: Anyone who has read Colin Powell's biography - there's an entire section where he talks about experiencing segregation. Colin Powell did not appear when he became head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That's not how it happened.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!
Garth Brooks -
It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
Walter Becker Steely Dan
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It's my job, with the position of power that I'm in and being able to be on television, I'm supposed to stand up for the people who can't stand up for themselves.
Charles Barkley -
I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.
W. P. Kinsella -
I stand to learn more working as an actor with really talented people than I do by directing a feature.
Domhnall Gleeson -
I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.
L'Wren Scott -
I'm trying to be truthful.
Bonnie Hunt -
The media has not done a great job in fulfilling their role - journalism's role in a democracy is to provide information on profoundly important subjects so we're an informed citizenry.
Jonathan Demme