Steven Spielberg Quotes

You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.

Steven Spielberg

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• My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Desire
  • Justice
  • Passionate

• There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Women
  • Two
  • Only

• I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Time
  • Sports
  • Swimming

• Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Writing
  • Like
  • Road

• There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Because
  • Were
  • Then

• The P2P marketplace extends into other markets where individuals are monetizing underutilized assets. Lodging is one example. Instead of finding a hotel room, in the sharing economy you can rent a spare room from a local resident.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Economy
  • Finding
  • Sharing

• Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Animals
  • Cousins
  • Zoo

• For each project I do, I try to surprise myself, do the unexpected, and change my own status quo. From the One Laptop Per Child, the Herman Miller Sayl, or the latest Movado watch collection, there is always an insecurity about being able to do something important. I think each of those projects makes me feel like we have progressed.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Important
  • Change
  • Myself

• Hi and Merry Christmas. I’m honored to have a chance to speak with you and your family this year. Recently we learned that our governments, working in concert, have created a system of worldwide system of mass surveillance watching everything we do. Great Britain’s George Orwell warned us of the danger of this kind of information.

  

  Edward Snowden
  • Great
  • Family
  • Christmas

• Because I really love tax, tax topics actually feature quite a lot in my fiction of various lengths. I once wrote a science fiction short story centered around the idea of an alien tax code, and the idea that you can understand a society by parsing its tax code.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Society
  • Science
  • Alien

• Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile.

  

  Kristen Bell
  • Up
  • Country
  • Heart

• Like many other Americans, I'm tired of the U.S. taxpayer paying for foreign wars, especially when the countries we defend have raked in huge oil profits.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • Tired

• Actually, I loved Chucky. It's one of the strangest movies I've ever seen.

  

  Bill Condon

• 'Rent-a-tile' means when you go to a dance hall, some people take the middle of the dance floor and do their thing.

  

  Sean Paul
  • People
  • Dance

• I will give my life to whoever in need, to any dear friend of mine.

  

  Katrina Kaif
  • Life
  • Friend

• We're making far too big a deal out of our sexual preferences. It's just another form of narcissism, and I think it can be a big problem and a tremendous obstacle.

  

  Andrew Cohen

• I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

  

  Prince Harry

• My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest things about us.

  

  Chris Abani
  • People
  • Everyday
  • Search

• I was a hockey player growing up. Being a big guy and being imposing, I had to use my size to protect my teammates.

  

  Kevin Durand
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Growing

• I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Up
  • Book

• My lifestyle had made me a walking time bomb.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Time
  • Me
  • Lifestyle

• I studied directing prior to acting and I've done music videos and documentaries and things that were sort of well-received.

  

  Matthew Gray Gubler
  • Music
  • Done

• Lay her i' the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling. HAMLET. What, the fair Ophelia! QUEEN GERTRUDE. Sweets to the sweet: farewell!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Sweet
  • Spring
  • Flower

• You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Intellectually Purge