Steven Soderbergh (Steven Andrew Soderbergh) Quotes

It's a world in which people's motives are questionable and shadowy.

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• When I just sit around my house and work, I can work two, three hours, and then I go off and ride a horse or do something that I perceive to be a lot more fun.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Work
  • Fun
  • House

• In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Dangerous
  • Act
  • Used

• But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin gourmets. There is, we feel, a decent area somewhere between boiled carrots and Beluga caviare, sour plonk and Chateau Lafitte, where we can take care of our gullets and bellies without worshipping them.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Food
  • Star
  • Beginning

• Don't ever be afraid to live. Because though dying is easy when compared to living

  

  Sandra Brown
  • Live
  • Afraid

• External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Individual
  • Conditions
  • External

• There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Ignorance
  • Conversation
  • Fund

• I fashion the expression of my face, as accurately as possible, in accordance with the expression of his, and then wait to see what thoughts or sentiments arise in my mind or heart, as if to match or correspond with the expression.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Fashion
  • Face
  • Expression

• It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes."

  

  Hugo Black
  • Purpose
  • Belief
  • Constitution

• We are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure.

  

  Jonathan Tropper
  • Exposure
  • Couples
  • Toxic

• I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction.

  

  Steve Irwin
  • Destruction
  • Issue
  • Habitat

• During this period Steen and Fox were killed trying a single-engine instrument approach at Moline. Then Campbell and Leatherman hit a ridge near Elko, Nevada. In both incidents the official verdict was 'pilot error,' but since their passengers, who were innocent of the controls, also failed to survive, it seemed that fate was the hunter. As it had been and would be.

  

  Ernest K. Gann
  • Survive
  • Instrument
  • Killed

• One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Listen
  • Sing
  • Indifference

• The only way to stop the violence and abuse that surrounds us is to talk about it.

  

  Paco Ignacio Taibo II
  • Way
  • Violence
  • Surrounds

• Many persons nowadays seem to think that any conclusion must be very scientific if the arguments in favor of it are derived from twitching of frogs' legs (especially if the frogs are decapitated) and that, on the other hand, any doctrine chiefly vouched for by the feelings of human beings (with heads on their shoulders) must be benighted and superstitious.

  

  William James
  • Thinking
  • Science
  • Feelings

• You should have disagreements with your leaders and your colleagues, but if it becomes immediately a question of questioning people's motives, and if immediately you decide that somebody who sees a whole new situation differently than you must be a bad person and somehow twisted inside, we are not going to get very far in forming a more perfect union.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Leaders
  • Colleagues
  • Motives

• If we rush ceaselessly through disconnected activities without checking in on our moods or motives, we can lose track of ourselves; in a sense, we lose the ability to experience our experiences.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Experiences
  • Activities
  • Motives

• Fame is a very strange animal.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Animal
  • Strange
  • Fame

• I started drumming around the same time I came across this part of American history. But there seemed to be a way forward playing drums. There didn't seem to be a way forward being fascinated by a piece of history.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Way
  • Playing
  • Drums

• It's a world in which people's motives are questionable and shadowy.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Motives
  • Shadowy