Steven Soderbergh (Steven Andrew Soderbergh) Quotes

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

Steven Soderbergh

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• Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

  

  E. B. White
  • Genius
  • More
  • Intelligence

• I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Music
  • Giving

• The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• Many actors come and disappear into oblivion. But not Salman Khan.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Come
  • Disappear
  • Many

• Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Home
  • Sleep
  • Baby

• Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Age
  • Religion
  • Sex

• Governments must ensure that the power of blogs is cultivated and implemented in collaborative ways, with a view to preserve peace and human dignity.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Power
  • Peace
  • View

• I have the right to protect myself. I feel like I have very good aim. My wife is better.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Good
  • Wife
  • Myself

• I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Good
  • Think
  • Said

• You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Good
  • Work
  • Artist

• I think if you write about human relationships, you're always exploring the psyche and the soul. I don't separate certain - perhaps more extreme - things that people do from others.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • People
  • Think
  • Soul

• I want to play Eva Peron. I've already done a lot of Shakespeare, but I'd like to do Lady Macbeth.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Done
  • Want
  • Like

• Cursing is highly effective in person - someone kicks his car in rage, forgetting he's wearing flip-flops, flames pour from his mouth, and it's impressive. But you see it in print, and it's just ugly.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Car
  • See
  • Ugly

• I've never written anything that I haven't wanted to write again. I want to, and still am, writing 'A Few Good Men' again. I didn't know what I was doing then, and I'm still trying to get it right. I would write 'The Social Network' again if they would let me, I'd write 'Moneyball' again. I would write 'The West Wing' again.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Good
  • Men
  • Writing

• The hours spent viewing TV are hours not available for actively participating in the real world, or playing, or being involved with friends and family. Watching television is an individual activity that tends to discourage interaction with others; as viewing time increases, family communication time decreases. As family communication decreases, people grow more distant from each other and may even forget how to carry on a good conversation.

  

  Louise Hart
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.

  

  Alvar Aalto
  • Nature
  • Content

• For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Writing
  • Giving
  • Zenith

• The Internet is truly God's gift to the Chinese people.

  

  Liu Xiaobo
  • People
  • God
  • Internet

• Boxing is just to introduce me to the struggle. Like, when I speak I draw people in the States to teach them various things or to give them dignity, pride and self-help. I have to help the dope and prostitution problem.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Teach
  • Boxing
  • Introduce

• Bernard Leach was the one who taught us that, because he, too, had started out as a painter and an etcher and had only gotten into ceramics by chance when he was in Japan trying to teach the Japanese how to do etching, which, as he said, they were not ready for yet.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Chance
  • Teach
  • Painter

• The main thing in making your own music is that it's an expression of someone's personality and being. That's what people want to hear, and you can't really teach that - that's just something that comes out. Teaching just hones that.

  

  Michael Kiwanuka
  • People
  • Personality
  • Teach

• I have no law degree. I never had a law degree. I don't know where that got started.

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • Law
  • Degree

• Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We've done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it's much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it's not only easier to use but more efficient.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Function
  • Tests
  • Studies

• I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Teach
  • Directions
  • Obscurity