Michael Bond Quotes

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Michael Bond

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• I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Believe
  • War
  • Death

• It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • People
  • Important
  • Money

• I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Hair
  • Struggle
  • Constant

• Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Up
  • Play

• Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • People
  • Fortune
  • Quit

• There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • You
  • Struggle
  • Yourself

• Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • God
  • Me
  • Start

• European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.

  

  Tarja Halonen
  • Why
  • Discipline
  • Will

• I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Hate

• Writing has always been an interest of mine, and 'The Language of Flowers' combined my experience with foster care with something I've always wanted to do.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Flowers

• I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Space

• There were no theatre facilities at the comp that I went to, but I did have amazing teachers who never stopped encouraging me.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Me
  • Amazing
  • Theatre

• As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Feel
  • More
  • Pressure

• I listen to older music like AC/DC.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • Music
  • Like
  • Listen

• There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by the first African-American president that we have. Obama's father was a Muslim and people have used this to arouse hostility against him.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• The standard SU(3)×SU(2)×U(1) theory of strong, electromagnetic, and weak interactions appears to correctly describe physics down to the smallest distance scales yet probed.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Strong
  • Distance

• Some stories, she'd say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they sound more silly and flat. The other kind of story, it uses you up. The more you tell it, the stronger it gets. Those kind of stories only remind you how stupid you were. Are. Will always be.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • Up
  • She
  • Drama

• Travel is a passion. I intend seeing the world.

  

  Anushka Shetty
  • World
  • Passion
  • Travel

• We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • House
  • Small
  • Air

• Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger. Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

  

  Matthew Tobin Anderson
  • Why
  • Book
  • House

• I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Movie

• Many mothers or daughters assume that words only mean one thing. 'If I feel criticised, that has to be the whole story', and 'if I feel I am being helpful, that has to be the whole story'.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Words

• It's nice having a bear about the house.

  

  Michael Bond
  • House
  • Bears