Hector Tobar Quotes

I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America stronger.

Hector Tobar

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• I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so long ago that my dream cast was Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, and Chris Rock. That would have been cool. Now, a lot of time has passed, and there are a lot of young funny people.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Best
  • Imagination
  • Greatest

• I was miserable the entire time I was Vanity. I spent so many days and so many nights crying, hating who I'd become.

  

  Vanity
  • Time
  • Crying
  • Vanity

• A lot of people think I'm a vegan. I'm not.

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Think
  • Vegan

• I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Think
  • Talent
  • Greatest

• I had plenty of LSD, but why take it. I knew what it was going to do, what it was going to tell me. It was going to show me that garden again and then I was going to be cast out and that was it.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Why
  • Garden

• The life of a revolutionary would be quite impossible without a certain amount of 'fatalism.'

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Life

• Once you've achieved success, and you're making decisions that are working, I don't understand why anyone would be second-guessing themselves.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Why
  • Success

• On the road to the GOP nomination, Trump earned the reputation as a good debater by slandering and bullying his opponents, knocking them out with cheap shots and lies. On a crowded stage, Trump got away with these deplorable tactics.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • Good
  • Road
  • Lies

• Iran continues to explicitly threaten to destroy the state of Israel, America's most important ally in the region. Its leaders continue to shout, 'Death to America.' If Iran wants to be a part of the world community, it should renounce such statements.

  

  Bill Flores
  • World
  • Important
  • America

• I'd been watching documentaries about early rock where white artists took 'race records' from blues and soul musicians to achieve mass appeal. I wanted to flip that and do an EP covering only white artists.

  

  Anderson Paak
  • Soul
  • Rock

• I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing. I ended up with the label that understood what I was trying to do.

  

  Emeli Sande
  • Up
  • Trying

• Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.

  

  James Shirley
  • Sweet

• I rarely draw myself, in general, and if I do, I tend to do little cute manga-esque, almost bite-sized drawings of myself.

  

  Jim Lee
  • Cute

• My brother never had me to dinner in his life.

  

  Burt Lancaster
  • Life
  • Brother

• I think it's dangerous to prosecute people for their political views and their political associations. I think you prosecute people for what they do, for their acts.

  

  Keith Ellison
  • People
  • Political

• I am built close to the ground and of extravagant body.

  

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

• Moviemaking is just really neat, and I really like doing that. I'd like to get into it more, but in terms of my role in all of this and in terms of the gift that God has given me, I had to come to the conclusion that my strength is as a storyteller, creating the story.

  

  Frank Peretti
  • God

• My readers are surprisingly mixed. I have conservative readers - for instance, women with headscarves - but also many liberal, leftist, feminist, nihilist, environmentalist, and secularist readers. Next to those are mystics, agnostics, Kurds, Turks, Alevis, Sunnis, gays, housewives, and businesswomen.

  

  Elif Safak
  • Women
  • Feminist

• I am itching like hell to play America because I know that if I did the show over there, they would love it.

  

  Bonnie Tyler
  • America

• I think that with Donald Trump, the United States will have a president who is not ideologically limited; that is, he is an open person, much more interested in success, efficiency, and results than political theories.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Think
  • Success
  • Political

• I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America stronger.

  

  Hector Tobar
  • Art
  • America