Steven Soderbergh (Steven Andrew Soderbergh) Quotes

If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some long-term value.

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• I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.

  

  B. B. King
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.

  

  Karen Morley
  • King
  • Popular
  • Daily

• Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Knowledge

• By now, you've probably caught on to something: my mother is always standing by with just the right Scripture or inspirational saying to get me through any tough situation.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Mother
  • inspirational
  • Tough

• With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.

  

  Valentina Matviyenko
  • Different
  • United States
  • Russia

• I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Believe
  • Equality
  • I Believe

• You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Know
  • Down
  • Gravity

• For me, it's important that I can talk to my customers all over the world. They can comment on what they like, tell me what fits - we have a daily dialogue. I can also see what she looks like and how she wears my shoes, which is a huge advantage. Thank God for Instagram; it helps me keep connected.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • World
  • God
  • Important

• Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Believe
  • Color
  • Yourself

• I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Back

• I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Art
  • Soul

• I loved ninjas when I was younger.

  

  Rain
  • Loved
  • Younger

• I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Me
  • Performance
  • Level

• Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Job
  • Always
  • Yourself

• Congress has a responsibility to review research paid for by hard-working American taxpayers.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • American
  • Responsibility

• Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.

  

  Parris Glendening
  • Water
  • Depression
  • Table

• I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.

  

  Oliver North
  • Kids
  • You
  • Trade

• I don't think of myself as a fast reader. I just read a lot. When someone else might think, 'I might do the dishes,' I don't. But then the dishes multiply.

  

  Elizabeth Strout

• When you start making a movie, people want to know: Who's the star power? And very early, I realized there's not a lot of 26-year-old black actors who have been given the opportunity to be the lead of a film. It's, like, Michael B. Jordan, and then we're done.

  

  Jordan Peele
  • People
  • Done
  • Power

• I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Music
  • Stuff
  • Old

• I'm not interested in making all-black films - I come from a very diverse culture; I want to work with every type of person. I work a lot with women executives because they seem to be a lot more open minded about that and a lot more progressive in that way.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Work
  • Women
  • Black

• Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it.

  

  Bob Beauprez
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some long-term value.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Value
  • Build
  • Painter