Stanley Kubrick Quotes

Regret isn't going to get me anywhere. It's like being obsessed with something. It doesn't bring you anywhere.

Stanley Kubrick

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• I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Believe
  • Never
  • Down

• I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.

  

  Nathan Gamble
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Hell
  • He
  • Inquisitive

• I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Think
  • Want
  • Coach

• Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Great
  • Country
  • American

• I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher told me to read it. And I thought, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to read a whole book by myself!' It's not that I couldn't read, it's just that I didn't really like books very much. But the book that she lent me I really enjoyed.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • God
  • Book
  • Reading

• If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Food
  • Cold
  • Sick

• I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Up
  • Bible
  • Southern

• As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • May
  • Control

• Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Home
  • Hope
  • Age

• I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Game
  • Actors
  • Fine

• I didn't act in Israel, but I wrote plays at home and acted in plays at school. I tried to get an agent when I was 12, but they told me that I had too much of an accent.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • School
  • Home
  • Me

• Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Death
  • Me
  • Course

• Only that position can impart dignity in which we do not appear as servile tools but rather create independently within our circle.

  

  Karl Marx

• What's the difference between a Republican and a Democrat? There is a greater difference between what I think in the morning and what I think in the afternoon than between those two parties.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Morning

• From these biased studies come biased social policy. Hundreds of millions of dollars to enforce sanctions against fathers who don’t pay mothers; almost nothing to enforce sanctions against mothers who don’t allow fathers to see children.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Children

• The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity, and humanity, let the blackguard Paine say what he will; it is resignation to God, it is goodness itself to man.

  

  John Adams
  • God
  • Wisdom
  • Christian

• Happiness may be difficult to obtain. The obstacles are not primarily financial.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • May
  • Financial
  • Obstacles

• We're seeing it the same way, we're hearing the same way, we have the same conception of the situation. And so, for all purposes, we are operating with a very similar perception.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Way
  • Situation
  • Perception

• If I have a script, I tend to stick to it even if God may be leading me elsewhere in the moment.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Moments
  • Elsewhere

• Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Wisdom

• Around 15, 16, I started not really wanting to be famous. I just loved acting, loved trying to make emotions clear to people.

  

  Edward Furlong
  • People
  • Trying
  • Famous

• I become obsessed with one thing or one look, a Bohemian look for instance, and then I wear that for a while.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Looks
  • Obsessed
  • Bohemian

• Regret isn't going to get me anywhere. It's like being obsessed with something. It doesn't bring you anywhere.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Regret
  • Obsessed