Stanley Kubrick Quotes

I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.

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• There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Beginning
  • Idea
  • Riches

• I love that I'm rarely recognized. I like it because I know I can look different from film to film.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Know
  • Like
  • Look

• The U.S. has a proud history of cleaning up our air through technological innovation. We did it with leaded gas, acid rain and countless other pollutants, and we can do it with carbon pollution, too.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • History
  • Proud

• Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Should
  • Entertainment
  • Union

• Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Me
  • Healthy
  • Starting

• I used to feel very lonely on the team. The boys would all pair up.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Team
  • Feel

• I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Work
  • Character

• The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Parents
  • Powerful
  • Influence

• I think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • Quality

• The so-called evils are evils only in relation to a certain thing, and that which is evil in relation to a certain existing thing, either includes the non-existence of that thing or the non-existence of some of its good conditions.

  

  Maimonides
  • Good
  • Evil

• Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas

• I love novelty workout pants. It means my workout kit is really bright and vibrant and out there.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Workout

• When suspicion and hostility is allowed to fester, it can erupt into unrest.

  

  Loretta Lynch

• One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Suffering

• Silence is not what democracy needs. Right now we have an election where, even the supporters of Hillary Clinton, the majority don't support Hillary; they just oppose Donald Trump. And the majority of Donald Trump supporters don't support him; they just oppose Hillary.

  

  Jill Stein
  • Support
  • Democracy
  • Silence

• Good Lord - if I couldn't multitask, I don't know what I'd do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Good
  • Know
  • Lord

• Now and then, especially at night, solitude loses its soft power and loneliness takes over. I am grateful when solitude returns.

  

  Donald Hall
  • Power
  • Night
  • Solitude

• But I feel that I have a responsibility to help the film and I have relations with the studio and with those who put up the money so that I can tell a story that I believe in.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Money

• When some one boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, "Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves."

  

  Diogenes
  • Games
  • Slaves
  • Boasted

• High tax rates in the upper income brackets allow politicians to win votes with class warfare rhetoric, painting their opponents as defenders of the rich. Meanwhile, the same politicians can win donations from the rich by creating tax loopholes that can keep the rich from actually paying those higher tax rates - or perhaps any taxes at all. What is worse than class warfare is phony class warfare. Slippery talk about 'fairness' is at the heart of this fraud by politicians seeking to squander more of the nation's resources.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Heart
  • Winning
  • Painting

• I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Practice
  • Force
  • Lord