Michael Biehn Quotes

As I've always said, 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' I'm much better with women than I am being tough in a bar!

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• The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Fear
  • Safety

• People adored Element 13's color and luster, which reminded them of the sparkle of gold and silver - a brand-new precious metal. In fact, aluminum became more precious than gold and silver in the 19th century because it was harder to obtain.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Color
  • Gold

• How lucky am I?

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Lucky
  • How
  • Am

• Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Culture
  • Class
  • Conservative

• No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Person
  • Honor
  • Reward

• I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • World
  • Poetry

• I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Experience
  • Feet
  • Lamp

• If I'm not doing something or working on something, I literally just sit in the room and think, which I don't think is productive. I won't go outside for days.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Think
  • Doing
  • Working

• The difficulty for the Government is there's this ideological straitjacket of the market will provide, let the market rip and everything will work out... It's back to trickle-down economics, which, it's plain to see, have not delivered.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Government
  • Economics

• The story of 'A Dog's Purpose' flowed into me a set piece. The entire book was just there, as if I were connected to a streaming service, a novel wholly formed of character and plot. This has never happened to me before or since. I prayed for help and I got it. A gift.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Character
  • Book
  • Help

• Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.

  

  Manika
  • Music
  • Love
  • Hate

• In establishing democracy, we have to be sensitive to the regional and national context. Democracy also means to guarantee the rights of the minorities. That's my job as a king. We have for example a Jewish ambassador in the US and a Christian in the UK.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Job
  • Christian
  • Democracy

• It seems to me that in the western world, culture has something to do with appearance. A person that's out creating good stuff has got to appreciate someone when they take the time to have an appearance that goes with what they're doing.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Society

• When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Funny
  • Air

• I think rock 'n' roll would become exponentially, considerably more difficult to perform past about 65.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Think
  • Past
  • Rock

• See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Experience
  • Opportunity
  • New

• I've studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. It's mainly about daydreaming. And the technique's really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Focus
  • Imagination
  • Emotional

• The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change is, ironically, what has kept it constant throughout the ages.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Change
  • Church
  • Rock

• That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Movie
  • Never
  • Finish

• Morocco has a lot to do in terms of democracy. The daily practice of democracy evolves in time. Trying to apply a Western democratic system to a country of the Maghreb, the Middle East, or the Gulf would be a mistake. We are not Germany, Sweden or Spain.

  

  Mohammed VI of Morocco
  • Country
  • Democracy
  • Practice

• I was pregnant, and, like, 'Being a mom's going to be easy!' And now I'm like, 'Great.'

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Great
  • Mom
  • Easy

• I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • My Life

• As I've always said, 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' I'm much better with women than I am being tough in a bar!

  

  Michael Biehn
  • Said
  • Tough
  • Lovers