Steven Soderbergh (Steven Andrew Soderbergh) Quotes

I have a friend whose theory is that you're from wherever you went to high school. I think that's mostly true.

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• Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Peace

• I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Think
  • Always
  • Majority

• Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Death

• I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Mom
  • Things
  • Anymore

• Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Leather

• I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Up
  • Interesting
  • Try

• Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Live
  • High
  • Freedom

• I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Charity

• There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Trying
  • You
  • Aesthetic

• Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of things - they clearly rejected the idea of an established church.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • America
  • Church
  • Founders

• A lot of times they don't want to hear it. But you know, if some good is done to you, you should pass it on.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Good
  • Done
  • Want

• Love stories thrive on hope.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Stories

• My parents are music fans, even though neither of them play an instrument. I was exposed to their record collection, so I love everything from Joni Mitchell to Bruce Springsteen.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Music
  • Play
  • Instrument

• In this day the breeze of God is wafted, and His Spirit hath pervaded all things. Such is the outpouring of His grace that the pen is stilled and the tongue is speechless.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • God
  • Day
  • Grace

• As a comedian, I don't know if they're laughing because it's funny or if they're laughing at me because I'm not funny. And I'm thinking, 'Who cares? They're laughing.' If you go on stage, and they're laughing at you full-on for 60 minutes? You know, whatever puts them in the seats.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Thinking
  • Funny
  • Me

• Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Men
  • Live
  • Bread

• When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Quality
  • First
  • Health care

• I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Like
  • Working
  • Outside

• In 'Next to Normal,' I had millions of breakdowns and panic attacks, but nobody ever heard about those.

  

  Jennifer Damiano

• When I first started working on 'Secret Diary,' I definitely felt like I needed to shape up. The idea of being in my knickers on TV was a great incentive! Now I try to eat right, and I go to Bikram yoga three or four times a week. I have my 'naughty' days, and I indulge in pizza and cake, but so what!

  

  Ashley Madekwe
  • Up
  • Great
  • Yoga

• I'm not always the first person to run out and see something I'm in. I don't know; for me, that's not why I did it. I did it because I wanted to act. I don't really think about the end result. I don't feel like I have to see it - for me, it already happened.

  

  Krysten Ritter
  • Why

• Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.

  

  Chris Ware
  • World
  • Art
  • Free

• We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

  

  John McDonald
  • World
  • Power
  • Environment

• I have a friend whose theory is that you're from wherever you went to high school. I think that's mostly true.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • School
  • Friend
  • Theory