Robert Zemeckis Quotes

You can't legislate sobriety.

Robert Zemeckis

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• I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Father
  • Political
  • Dad

• What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Different
  • America
  • War

• Car technology needs to advance, and the best place for that to happen in is Silicon Valley.

  

  Jason Calacanis
  • Technology
  • Car

• I'm pretty good with languages.

  

  Marisol Nichols
  • Good
  • Pretty

• The consistency - either the theme from record to record, or the band, the different musicians - it really varies. So if I get criticism, I don't worry about that, because I'm still being creative.

  

  Jason Molina
  • Different
  • Band
  • Worry

• If tomorrow the good Lord decides that's my last day, then I'm not going to go down with a frown. I'm going down with a smile on my face, knowing that I've gotten everything out of life.

  

  Jim Kelly
  • Life
  • Good
  • Smile

• You want to go play with your new friends back there? The really pale ones with the taste for plasma? --Shane

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Friends
  • Play
  • Plasma

• Darling -- I suppose the world would consider us absolutely crazy, but it is wonderful to feel that way, isn't it? Sort of a perpetual springtime in our hearts.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • World
  • Crazy

• Keep behind, and you shall be put in front; keep out, and you shall be kept in.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Keep

• I stay patient. I don't go out there and try to set a course record. That's probably one of my strengths and one reason I've been able to win major championships.

  

  Annika Sorenstam
  • Record
  • Patient
  • Championships

• The whole time I was in front of the camera, I was thinking of the artist. A fellow creator who had poured her soul into something truly remarkable that might simply be ignored by the whole world. I was trying to get in her head. I was trying to figure out why she had created this thing and, in the same breath, calling out the world for its callous ignorance of beauty and form... I wanted people to wae up and spend a few moments looking at the exceptional amazement of human creation.

  

  Hank Green
  • Artist
  • Camera

• Magic and religion are ultimately experiential in nature and should be treated as such.

  

  Nevill Drury
  • Nature
  • Religion
  • Magic

• Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Good
  • Travel
  • Son

• I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Kiss

• I almost resent being Charley Moviestar. Yeah, I'm grateful. But it takes me away from my kids.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Kids

• I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Time
  • Career
  • Day

• I can only speak for me... but in my life, I find that, in sobriety, I feel much more, and I have much more depth. I also feel - not to segue, but as being a parent of five kids, I can bring much more to my acting, and so I'm all about anything that gives you more feeling and more depth.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Feeling

• We are well aware from which countries and through which countries the terrorists are receiving support. In the immediate future I shall be calling upon the leaders of these states to put a stop to this kind of activity.

  

  Boris Yeltsin
  • Future
  • Support
  • Stop

• Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Responsibility
  • Prepare
  • DIscharge

• You can't legislate sobriety.

  

  Robert Zemeckis
  • Sobriety
  • Legislate