George P. Shultz Quotes

If you ask me what am I, I might say 'I am a Californian,' and if George Bush were here, he would say 'I am a Texan.'

George P. Shultz

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• Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff. It means that deconstruction of the superhero is something you can do. All those movies have led to a point where we can finally have 'Watchmen' with a Superman character who doesn't want to save the world and a Batman who has trouble in bed.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • World
  • Men
  • Character

• It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Appreciate
  • Lens

• Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Nature
  • Objects
  • Processes

• Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.

  

  Vesta Williams
  • Country
  • Real
  • Girl

• The 100m is never stressful.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Never
  • Stressful

• I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Character
  • Man
  • Look

• Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Up
  • Education

• As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Company
  • Teenager
  • Him

• You get some directors, and I can never understand it - there's a thing they call the 'video village' where all the monitors are, and you've probably seen it on set visits - I hate that! I never, ever like sitting in video village. I get either my own monitor or a hand held monitor, and I stand right by the camera.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Hate
  • Hand
  • Stand

• We're raising our girls to understand the real meaning of Christmas, and to know that it's most important to have Christmas in your heart. We go to our local mall and donate toys, and we say prayers for all the people in the world who might not be as lucky as we are.

  

  Faith Hill
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• One immutable trait of the gullible is that they are credulous to a fault. Though no-doubt well-meaning, the naive are Trump's base.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Doubt
  • Trump
  • Fault

• I would never jeopardize classified information. I served my country well and loyally, and I had to sue the C.I.A. on First Amendment grounds.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Country
  • Information

• Working with children is a whole other ball game. They're like little animals. You have to keep the camera turned on them all the time. Sometimes it takes a 41-minute take to get one sentence out in a believable way.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Time
  • Children
  • Game

• Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Heaven
  • Marriage
  • Thought

• I'm perceived as someone who goes out and searches for new music, but it was all present in my household.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Present
  • New

• 'Hispanic' was the term adopted by the government - by the Nixon government in particular - and that made the community feel it was being branded.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Community
  • Government
  • Feel

• If you wear them outside, they stop being pyjamas. I wear mine to the mail box, which is right in front of my house - that's my limit. Anything else is wrong.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • House
  • You
  • Stop

• I am conscious of having served England as I served my own country.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Country

• Think how you love me,' she whispered. 'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember.' You'll always be like this to me.' Oh no; but promise me you'll remember.' Her tears were falling. 'I'll be different, but somewhere lost inside me there'll always be the person I am tonight.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Different
  • She
  • Remember

• I would love to play a main character and then play different characters as well. I would want for it to be a sitcom, multicamera, audience - that's definitely a dream. It's in the works, so... it's closer than everybody thinks it is.

  

  Brandy
  • Love
  • Dream
  • Play

• I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Job
  • Feel
  • Doing

• If you ask me what am I, I might say 'I am a Californian,' and if George Bush were here, he would say 'I am a Texan.'

  

  George P. Shultz