Joseph Barbera Quotes

Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.

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• Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Business
  • Team
  • Impact

• Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

  

  Nas
  • Up
  • Politics
  • Now

• So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • People
  • Time
  • Business

• Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Guy

• And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Energy
  • Independent
  • Security

• The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Science

• There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • People
  • Writing
  • Reality

• I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • People
  • Positive
  • Influence

• Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Light
  • Learning
  • Bible

• I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Good
  • Grateful

• Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Up
  • Good
  • Game

• You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Love
  • Respect
  • Treat

• I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Spiritual
  • Religion
  • Phases

• Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Universe

• One place had a winning record that I went to, and that was Detroit. Rick Carlisle laid a foundation that gave us a chance to win a championship.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Winning
  • Chance
  • Win

• I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So, performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • People
  • Audience
  • Kid

• The way the Facebook network is set up, it's not as suitable for content discovery. Twitter is better, but there are too many over-sharers. Also, on Twitter and Facebook, everything comes from people you know. On StumbleUpon, it comes from people that you don't necessarily know but share your interests.

  

  Garrett Camp
  • People
  • Up
  • Better

• Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • War
  • Action
  • Fall

• Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

  

  John A. Powell
  • Live
  • Poverty

• So why did I think about her every second? Why was I so much happier the minute I saw her? I felt like maybe I knew the answer, but how could I be sure? I didn't know, and I didn't have any way to find out. Guys don't talk about stuff like that. We just lie under the pile of bricks.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Guy

• I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Soul
  • Lost
  • Pieces

• That's the lesson of the dogs, that it's important to both live in the moment and then go on to the next wonderful thing.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Important
  • Live

• Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.

  

  Joseph Barbera
  • Work
  • Character