Steven Berkoff (Leslie Steven Berkoff) Quotes

We often find far more power in a symbol than in something that is an an actuality.

Steven Berkoff

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• I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • School
  • Film
  • Student

• The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • New
  • Priority
  • Creating

• I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Women
  • Love
  • Strong

• Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • History
  • Science
  • Thought

• What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Long
  • Live
  • Growing

• I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • People
  • Book
  • Questions

• I just do these 'Sleep' type tracks when the situation presents itself. I never set out to do them, like wait all day until I'm really tired or something. Gotta come natural.

  

  Aaron Funk
  • Day
  • Sleep
  • Tired

• Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Man
  • Wish
  • Distance

• Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • People
  • Good
  • Moment

• Boxing is a noble sport.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Boxing
  • Sport
  • Noble

• Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Best

• I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Why
  • Style
  • See

• The fact is, I view part of what I do is, if necessary, on difficult issues, be the lightning rod.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Difficult
  • View
  • Lightning

• It's cool that I'm 20 and am on the cover of the video game. A lot of kids play hockey, and a few get drafted, and only a few get to be on the cover. It's a great feeling.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Game

• The true dualism I take to be the contrast between two wills, one of which is felt as vital impulse (élan vital) and the other as vital control (frein vital).

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • True
  • Control

• 'That you are regularly facing challenges does not make you an unbeliever. Don’t measure your Christian life by your situation.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Life
  • Christian

• If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

  

  Yann Martel
  • Believe

• The slogans of globalisation are 'Get on your bike' and 'The world is flat.' People who want to get on have to be willing to move, often and unhesitatingly, at the behest of their employer or to seek work.

  

  John Lanchester
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Young
  • Television
  • Act

• I love working with big flavors like chiles and smoke. Honey is perfect for softening the edges, mellowing them out a bit. I put it in everything - vinaigrettes, soups, stocks, salsas, so I'm always on the hunt for great honey.

  

  Bobby Flay
  • Great
  • Perfect

• The notion of the free play of the mind upon all subjects being a pleasure in itself, being an object of desire, being an essential provider of elements without which a nation's spirit, whatever compensations it may have for them, must, in the long run, die of inanition, hardly enters into an Englishman's thoughts.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Long
  • Mind
  • May

• We often find far more power in a symbol than in something that is an an actuality.

  

  Steven Berkoff
  • Power
  • Symbol
  • Actuality