Steven Zaillian (Steven Ernest Bernard Zaillian) Quotes

People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles... it's a small percentage.

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• You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • World
  • You
  • Economy

• One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Desire
  • Stupid
  • Dreams

• I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Know
  • Thought
  • Big

• In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Atheist
  • Appearance
  • Agnostic

• Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Man
  • Being
  • Silly

• Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Greatest
  • Winner
  • Seen

• I am not helpless. Any timid minister will not go forward... I have come here to strive hard for the sake of the country, to work for the country. If anybody thinks that decision making process in the oil sector will be prevented, they are totally wrong.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Country
  • Process
  • Strive

• Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Efficiency

• I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Things
  • Very
  • Involved

• I have had to learn about saying no.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Learn
  • Saying
  • About

• The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Important
  • Experience

• Each man seeks his own interest, not the general interest. Let his own selfish interests be touched, and all concord is at an end.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Man
  • End
  • Selfish

• I took up an offer for me to lose 30 pounds in 30 days. It worked. I lost 30 days!

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Lose
  • Days
  • Worked

• I'll never put my memoirs in print.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Never
  • Print
  • Memoirs

• When I was about 12 years old, I knew I had to take the game more seriously if I wanted to be able to provide for my family.

  

  Brandon Jennings
  • Family
  • Game

• I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.

  

  Preston Brooks
  • Good
  • Respect
  • Question

• Rather than being taught to accept ourselves, we were trained to make ourselves socially acceptable. And whenever we fail, we suffer inside.

  

  George Robinson
  • Accept
  • Suffer
  • Fail

• Wear the cap and the bells And you'll rate all the great swells. If you become a doctor, folks'll face you with dread. If you become a dentist, they'll be glad when you're dead. You get a bigger hand if you can stand on your head. Be a clown, be a clown, be a clown.

  

  Cole Porter
  • Great
  • Hand

• I always wanted to win. Everyone has a bit of that in them, but I have even more of a will to win. Sometimes I might go overboard, whereas there are others who, yes, they want to win, but if they don't, it's no big deal for them.

  

  Diego Costa

• I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Mother

• The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

  

  Marilyn Ferguson
  • Attention
  • Brain
  • Effort

• People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles... it's a small percentage.

  

  Steven Zaillian
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  • Arthouse