Joshua Leonard Quotes
I think as long as there are folks on the fringe who want to make movies, the indie scene will still be around. I do think it's getting harder to get them seen though.
Quotes to Explore
-
I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
-
However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
-
It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
-
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
-
I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
-
I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
-
We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand - connected with InfiniBand vs. the traditional Ethernet.
-
Nobody wants to retire from football.
-
Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
-
I could be working 300 hours a week. I just say 'no.' The power of slow is the power of no. I can't go to every party I get invited to. I can't do every work thing.
-
When something is troubling me, people know about it.
-
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
-
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
-
I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.
-
I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
-
Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.
-
The pursuit of wealth generally diverts men of great talents and strong passions from the pursuit of power; and it frequently happens that a man does not undertake to direct the fortunes of the state until he has shown himself incompetent to conduct his own.
-
Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning...We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.
-
It's that experienced eye that knows what the public loves and how to create that Hollywood magic that drives pop culture.
-
Let's not assume that trade is the only challenge we have in the economy. I think it is a part of it, and I've said what I'm going to do. I'm going to have a special prosecutor. We're going to enforce the trade deals we have, and we're going to hold people accountable.
-
At 35, I'm thinking, Oh, I don't have any of that initial inspiration that I had before, all that angst. I always thought I would burn out very quickly.
-
My first job was as a waitress, and I waitressed for a long, long time. I was a very bad waitress. I didn't care if people had ketchup or if they were allergic to fish. It really didn't bother me either way. I didn't care. I was bad, but it was a good way to make money. And it's a fun job if you are working with fun people.
-
To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor, to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by traveling west. . . . No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors, and make success impossible.
-
I think as long as there are folks on the fringe who want to make movies, the indie scene will still be around. I do think it's getting harder to get them seen though.
