Sidney Lumet (Sidney Arthur Lumet) Quotes

Work is my norm. I have mad energy, insane energy, a kind of stamina in terms of work that's a little crazy.

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• Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • Technology
  • Car

• I don't really like to work with actors that work a lot and are very well established already. In a way, I like to nurture talent and have it burst on the scene.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Work
  • Way
  • Talent

• Timidity does not inspire bold acts.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Inspire
  • Bold
  • Timidity

• I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Think
  • Idea
  • Text

• Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Life
  • Long
  • Hair

• Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Diversity
  • Just
  • Big

• I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Good
  • Long
  • Brand

• The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Power
  • Feeling
  • Kind

• I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Faithful
  • Sinner
  • Despised

• I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Different
  • Love
  • Think

• I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • Women
  • Mother

• The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Wind and other clean, renewable energy will help end our reliance on fossil fuels and combat the severe threat that climate change poses to humans and wildlife alike.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Help
  • Energy
  • Change

• I never wanted children; maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Children
  • Responsibility

• It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • World
  • Labor
  • Others

• People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Time
  • Children

• Often the features metaphysicians are interested in, like causation, time, and essence, involve features that seem so basic or are so generally embedded in the way we experience the world that it takes special attention and focus to draw them out and develop an account of their nature.

  

  L.A. Paul
  • Time
  • World
  • Experience

• I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Work
  • Yourself
  • Work Hard

• If a poet does not tell the truth about time, his or her work will not survive it. Past or present, there is a human dimension to time, human voices within it, and human griefs ordained by it.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Time
  • Work
  • Truth

• I always shoot for the moon in my work, so that I'm happy when I land on the roof.

  

  Darren Criss
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Moon

• The best mentors present their opinions simply as data and not as direction.

  

  David Cohen
  • Present

• Work is my norm. I have mad energy, insane energy, a kind of stamina in terms of work that's a little crazy.

  

  Sidney Lumet
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Crazy