Steven Spielberg Quotes

The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.

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• But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Game
  • Football
  • Youth

• 'Sixth Street' is probably a new chapter for me. All of the songs were written in my apartment where I'm most comfortable, and at that point, I understood who I was and knew what I was feeling about life.

  

  Yuna
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Me

• E-Verify is a very commonsense reform that we can implement here in the state of Florida. I think I share a lot of Floridians' frustration that it didn't pass and a lot of the politics that were taking place behind the scenes.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • Think
  • Politics
  • Frustration

• For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Business
  • Friend
  • Wife

• A busybody's work is never done.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Work
  • Done
  • Never

• If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • People
  • Up
  • Sports

• We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Language
  • Service
  • Tests

• We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that?

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Me
  • Define
  • Blackness

• Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Cure
  • Senses

• I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Up
  • Work
  • Like

• I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Know
  • Play
  • Band

• If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • American
  • Achievement

• We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be 'informavores,' epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • World
  • Live

• I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others. I suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife. At length, I even offered her personal violence.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Wife
  • Violence

• Live, for I love you!

  

  Edmond Rostand
  • Live

• Represent your figures in such action as may be fitted to express what purpose is in the mind of each; otherwise your art will not be admirable.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Mind
  • Art
  • May

• I don't pretend to be an author or to know anything about writing. I'm doing this simply because Dr Reilly asked me to, and somehow when Dr Reilly asks you to do a thing you don't like to refuse.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Writing
  • Author

• As for the Soothsayer, although I am certain no one feels the true beauties of that work better than I, I am far from finding these beauties in the same places as the infatuated public does. They are not the products of study and knowledge, but rather are inspired by taste and sensitivity.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Work
  • True
  • Knowledge

• Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Bad
  • Trust
  • Animal

• I would be a drudge now, among the tents, and I would kneel before the warriors, and run from them when they shouted at me. I would be a woman, as women were reckoned in this place, a half-souled, witless animal, created to bear and pleasure men: an afterthought of the god.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • God
  • Men
  • Women

• The problem is that the media rarely discusses the real reasons behind why women leave their jobs. We hear a lot about the desire to be closer to the children, the love of crafting and gardening, and making food from scratch. But reasons like lack of maternity leave, lack of affordable day care, lack of job training, and unhappiness with the 24/7 work culture-well, those aren't getting very much airtime.

  

  Emily Matchar
  • Desire
  • Problem
  • Jobs

• I believe firmly in the efficacy of religion, in its powerful influence on a person's whole life. It helps immeasurably to meet the storms and stress of life and keep you attuned to the Divine inspiration. Without inspiration, we would perish.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Powerful

• They cut about seven minutes from that broadcast, but it was still vital to the story's momentum.

  

  Ben Bradlee

• The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Animal
  • Reasons
  • Capacity