Karl Urban Quotes

I was a fan of the 'Dredd' comics when I was a teenager.

Karl Urban

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• I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • People
  • America
  • Small

• My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Great
  • Children
  • Father

• It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Real
  • Why
  • Feeling

• If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Reading
  • Like
  • Hearing

• I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Great
  • Young
  • Great Things

• The typical workday, particularly in startup mode, is from nine to six or nine to seven, then you take a two-hour break to work out and eat dinner. By that time, you're relaxed, and then you work until midnight or one A.M. If there was no break with physical activity, you'd be more tired and less alert.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Time
  • Work
  • Tired

• Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Different
  • Identity
  • Stand

• Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started 'Wine Library TV.' They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I was one of the biggest producers of new wine drinkers in the world, and people are realizing it now.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • World
  • Thought

• There's so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people funding that innovation, but there's very little innovation on that infrastructure for innovation itself, so we like to do that ourselves to help companies create more tech companies.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • People
  • Help
  • Innovation

• My schedule is so crazy.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Crazy
  • Schedule

• You do the policy, I'll do the politics.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • You
  • Politics
  • Policy

• With 'Palo Alto' as the catalyst, I've surrounded myself with people that have kind of created a world where I can feel like I'm not gonna be judged for doing something that I want to do.

  

  Jack Kilmer
  • People
  • World
  • Myself

• I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • People
  • World
  • Food

• It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • People
  • Remember
  • Think

• Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Men
  • Think
  • Opinion

• Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Music
  • Think
  • Me

• I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Want
  • Man
  • Relationship

• Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Music
  • Important
  • Myself

• We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Time
  • Man
  • Nothing

• The increasing diversification of media ecosystems after decades of state control, along with new digital tools that allow for greater citizen engagement, have led to a dramatic reshaping of the dynamics between citizens, media, and government.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Control
  • Engagement

• There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • Great
  • Sympathy

• Ontario's gas tax rebates and infrastructure programs help create sustainable transit to improve quality of life for Ottawa residents with significant environmental benefits.

  

  Bob Chiarelli
  • Create
  • Environmental
  • Residents

• He got off to a tough start. And having that big contract, pitching at home, can sometimes weigh on you. I don't think he'd admit that, but you really want to start things right, especially being back home, with a new team. And that didn't happen for him.

  

  Bob Melvin
  • Home
  • Team
  • Contract

• I was a fan of the 'Dredd' comics when I was a teenager.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Teenager
  • Fan
  • Comics