Robert W. Service Quotes

The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.

Robert W. Service

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• Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Vision
  • Persistence
  • Award

• My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Remember
  • Mom
  • Always

• Isolation is a self-defeating dream.

  

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari
  • Dream
  • Isolation

• I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Country
  • Children

• I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Writing
  • Better
  • Television

• You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • You
  • Attitude

• When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Talent
  • Kid

• I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Fun
  • Know
  • Like

• Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Think
  • Career

• Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Mind
  • Like
  • Wall

• London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Culture
  • Fashion
  • Architecture

• One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Person
  • Glory
  • Accomplish

• In a television interview, I said that diversity in our children's books should include the adventures of disabled children, travellers and gipsies, LGBT teens, different cultures, classes, colours, religions. It shouldn't be a token gesture, nor do such stories need to be 'issue-based'.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Different
  • Children
  • Diversity

• Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Power
  • Man
  • Slavery

• There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Life
  • Wish
  • Dumb

• I'm a very jaded and cynical person.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Person
  • Very
  • Cynical

• The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Think
  • Nice
  • Very

• The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Work
  • Ideas
  • Principles

• The people who founded America, who fought for its freedom, did not look to anyone else to get them out of their troubles. They took matters into their own hands and answered only to God and their peers. In today's world, sacrifice and hardship are not in the everyday language, and instant gratification is foremost.

  

  Ann Rinaldi
  • People
  • World
  • God

• 'The Simpsons' was about children and married parents; 'Futurama' is about people in between; they're growing up and haven't settled down. Every other cartoon show seemed to be, you know, dumb dad, bratty kids.

  

  Matt Groening
  • People
  • Up
  • Children

• On his own okay, Bush has authorized eavesdropping on as many as a thousand people over the past three years, with some of those intercepts being purely domestic, the New York Times reported.

  

  Margaret Carlson
  • People
  • Past

• America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we're probably known for around the world, I would imagine.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • World
  • Real
  • America

• And, as a matter of fact, I am the chairman of the Amadou Diallo Foundation.

  

  David Dinkins

• The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.

  

  Robert W. Service
  • People
  • Humans
  • Tough