Steven Spielberg Quotes

Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips.

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• I never set out to be an actor. Again, my mother presented this job by job to me at the time, and if it sounded fun, I would say yes and if it didn't, I would say no. I always knew, since I was 7 or 8 years old, that it was a means to an end and that I wanted to go to college.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Time
  • Job
  • Fun

• I personally have dealt with any adversity in my life with humor. That's why I told America to 'Read my hips!' on 'Dancing With the Stars' or was happy to play along with Jason Alexander and Jerry Seinfeld in the great restaurant scene on 'Seinfeld.'

  

  Marlee Matlin
  • Life
  • Great
  • Why

• Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Earth
  • Culture
  • Heaven

• A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

  

  Aristotle
  • Democracy
  • Oligarchy
  • Supplanted

• The most dangerous thing Iraq could have ever had was a nuclear weapon. The nuclear weapon Iraq was trying to build was not deliverable by bomb or ballistic missile. It was a large, bulky device that they hoped to bury and set off to let the world know they had a nuclear weapon. They never achieved that.

  

  Scott Ritter
  • World
  • Trying
  • Dangerous

• It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Women
  • Marriage
  • Possession

• Spring, you are a pinking shears: you cut fresh edges on the world.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Spring
  • Shears

• Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Fashion
  • Water
  • Wood

• Who do we think we are — we small creatures with three-pound brains, a few limited senses, and life spans barely long enough to get to know our neighborhood, much less the planet, and much less the galaxy, and much less the universe, and much less still its creator! Who do we think we are to be able to define or even describe the creator of DNA, galaxies, dust mites, blue whales, the carbon cycle, light, and a billion other realities we have no notion about whatsoever, no awareness of at all?

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Life
  • Creature
  • Neighborhood

• I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form?

  

  Michael Behe
  • Support
  • Common
  • Evidence

• My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'

  

  Mitch Leigh
  • Always
  • Advice
  • Singers

• The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

  

  Havelock Ellis
  • Optimism
  • Lunatic asylum

• I thought, well, you might see curves there, but that's just a bone - so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look. That's my shape. Do the math.

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • Math

• The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Character
  • Hero
  • Scripture

• Today, you have achieved something special, something only 92 percent of Americans your age will ever know: a college diploma. That’s right, with your college diploma you now have a crushing advantage over 8 percent of the workforce. I'm talking about dropout losers like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Age
  • Today
  • College

• I never, ever, saw the evil Steve Jobs. He was always the most well-mannered and respectful guy I knew. And we got to be pretty good friends. He didn't suffer fools gladly. I guess he didn't think I was a fool.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Guy

• Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.

  

  Will Durant
  • Freedom
  • Equality
  • Enemies

• My movies don't make any money, and they don't really light the world on fire. But I'm really lucky because I've gotten them made.

  

  Mike Binder
  • Money
  • Really
  • Because

• The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Lives
  • Great Men
  • Phillosophies

• Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Inventor
  • Steve Jobs
  • Thomas Edison