R. M. Williams Quotes

The urge to get out and go it alone must be strong in most people, for the spirit of man answers to the blood of his ancestors.

R. M. Williams

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• There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Woman
  • Film
  • Director

• The world is too violent right now.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • World
  • Right
  • Now

• I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • Family
  • Together

• We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • School
  • Kids
  • Interesting

• I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Work
  • Me
  • Really

• Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

  

  Vern Buchanan
  • You
  • Race
  • Lose

• I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Want
  • Ideas
  • Own

• When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.

  

  Sally Rand
  • Me
  • Wind
  • Fans

• A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again.

  

  Warren Giles
  • New York
  • Papers
  • Headline

• I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Character

• If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Complain

• As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Hate
  • Know
  • Child

• I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Immigration
  • Legal

• In fact - statistically, as you know - people have done polls, research, and at least 80 percent or more or working media are liberal Democrats if they are involved with any party and certainly liberal in their philosophy.

  

  Pat Boone
  • People
  • Done
  • Party

• I'm not the girl next door.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Girl
  • Door
  • Girl Next Door

• I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • World
  • Love
  • Feeling

• I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • People
  • Up
  • Singing

• Basically, I always go to vintage shops rather than going shopping for new clothes.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Clothes
  • Shopping
  • Vintage

• John Cena is like the 2010 version of Bret Hart. Fans see him as a real decent, upstanding human being.

  

  Bret Hart
  • Human being
  • Decent

• Xavier has been the ultimate role model. No matter how far away we are geographically, working together is something we feed off of.

  

  Benedict Samuel
  • Together
  • Model

• One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the upsetting aspects of our lives. If I'm constantly brooding about my children or career, I won't notice that I'm lonely. If I grapple continuously with logistical problems, I can avoid contemplating little issues like, say, my own mortality.

  

  Martha Beck
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Children

• People always ask me how we got the name Def Leppard. Actually, it came from a poster I had made which depicted a rather strange-looking jungle cat with a hearing horn at his ear. I called him the deaf leopard. The guys in the band loved the poster, and after a bit of work, we decided to call ourselves Def Leppard. The name is funny, but it has strength.

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • People
  • Funny
  • Guys

• The urge to get out and go it alone must be strong in most people, for the spirit of man answers to the blood of his ancestors.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • People
  • Strong
  • Alone