Eric Rohmer Quotes

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

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• From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Chance
  • Financial
  • Equal

• There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Question

• The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • World
  • Bigger
  • Thrill

• I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Music
  • House
  • Dance

• I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

  

  Kanye West
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Think
  • Economy
  • Where

• Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • People
  • Country
  • Animals

• Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Band
  • Stand

• I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Career
  • While
  • Chose

• This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• The importance of creativity in our country is greatly misunderstood.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Country
  • Creativity

• My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Father

• I make an effort to keep it as real as I possibly can.

  

  Ice T
  • Real
  • Effort
  • Keep

• Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Great
  • Music
  • Rock

• When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Want
  • Me
  • Best

• I don't work for Donald Trump. I work with him. I work for the people who sent me up here. He ran on repealing and replacing Obamacare. Those people that put him and me in office expect us to repeal and replace Obamacare.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Look at Michelle Obama. Everyone keeps making a big deal about her arms being exposed, but don't get it twisted: her arms are out for a reason. Black women have had those arms forever - lifting, picking cotton, toting and carrying babies.

  

  LaTanya Richardson
  • Women
  • Black
  • Forever

• I try not to label myself anything, really, but you know, I'm definitely an indoorsy person, and I definitely kind of just try to, you know, stay away from life in the public eye, at least.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Eye

• God has control over everything, and obviously, everything to everyone is god-given.

  

  Troy Polamalu
  • Given

• I am not proud to be gay any more than I am proud to be right handed or to breathe oxygen.

  

  Cleve Jones
  • Proud
  • Gay
  • Breathe

• What's really going on here is, this is a media shift. It's comparable to what happened in the 1950s and the birth of electronic mass media back then.This is the birth of a new kind of personal media, where, instead of we're all watching one program, we're all watching each other. And the history of media makes it really clear. Whenever we have a big innovation, the first wave of stuff we do is pretty crummy. The printing press gave us pornography, cheap thrillers, and how-to books. Television gave us Newt Minow's vast wasteland.

  

  Esther Dyson
  • History
  • Books
  • Media

• Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

  

  Eric Rohmer
  • Civilization
  • Films
  • Provides