Steven Spielberg Quotes

I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.

Steven Spielberg

• Life
• Imagination
• Science fiction

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• I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Writing
  • Future
  • Energy

• I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Difference
  • Match
  • Fresh

• When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • School
  • Wrestling
  • Matches

• All I ever wanted to do is make music.

  

  Caleb Johnson
  • Music
  • Wanted
  • Ever

• I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Time
  • Writing
  • College

• One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Courage
  • Pessimism

• Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Experience
  • Peace
  • Quiet

• The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Beginning
  • Lies
  • End

• How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.

  

  Maimonides
  • Power
  • Same
  • Distance

• I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • True
  • Idea
  • Achieve

• I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Time
  • Children
  • Support

• I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.

  

  Iman
  • Country
  • Mother
  • Father

• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Today
  • Simple
  • Perfection

• I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Look
  • Internet
  • Try

• I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Inspiration
  • Cooking
  • Chefs

• Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • For Him
  • Succeed
  • Love Is

• There were no theatre facilities at the comp that I went to, but I did have amazing teachers who never stopped encouraging me.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Me
  • Amazing
  • Theatre

• How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook.

  

  Eli Broad

• There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Life
  • Things
  • Enough

• When I have had a long day at work, I want something to watch that is funny, lighthearted and easy to get into, and reality is that. I'm not really into serious programmes or documentaries.

  

  Amy Childs
  • Work
  • Long
  • Reality

• Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Health
  • Spiritual
  • Pride

• I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Life
  • Imagination
  • Science fiction