Nathan Sawaya Quotes

So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.

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• That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Party
  • Language
  • Stronger

• I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Hope
  • Small
  • Movies

• Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Live

• Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • World
  • Together
  • Democracy

• I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Free

• You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Want
  • Words
  • Body

• To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Hate
  • Know
  • Child

• I was always taken in and out of school.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • School
  • Taken
  • Always

• My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • World
  • Book
  • Together

• Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Universe

• The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Death
  • Body
  • Spirit

• I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Job

• I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Important
  • Myself
  • Ego

• What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Strength

• I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Time
  • Data

• In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Early
  • Influenced
  • Ventures

• In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Suffering

• A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

  

  Karl Kraus
  • World
  • Heart
  • Man

• A true champion can adapt to anything.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • True
  • Champion
  • Adapt

• I think Joan's advice would be: always know more than anyone else, always be discreet as possible. And never cry at work.

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • Work
  • Advice

• Sometimes when I am photographing a major news event, I am suddenly overwhelmed by helplessness.

  

  Lynsey Addario

• My mother's childhood was complex, disjointed, and disturbing. As children, we would gather round and ask her to tell us again and again The Story of Her Childhood. It was Grimmsian, Andersenesque: a classic fairy tale replete with goodies and baddies.

  

  Lisa Jewell
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Childhood

• If we could look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Care
  • Unique
  • Understand

• So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Ability