Michael De Luca Quotes

Because of my New Line upbringing, half my heart goes to scrappy independents, and half goes to mainstream, down-the-middle pop culture events. And even with those, to try to keep something fresh and original with them and try to do things that the majors miss.

Michael De Luca

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• If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Fall
  • Horse
  • Backup

• Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • People
  • Time
  • America

• Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • People
  • Music
  • Speak

• I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Life
  • Father
  • Sweet

• Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Life
  • Change
  • Environmental

• I am turning into the person I knew I would.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Person
  • Turning

• There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Years
  • Questions
  • Ask

• I'm interested in ways that digital interfaces can be utilized as powerful narrative devices, and to engage people in new and exciting ways.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Digital

• When I look at my streams on Spotify, and I just see it's hundreds of millions of streams, I think, 'Wow, that's amazing.' But you don't really get it. Once you see people in front of you singing along to your songs, it's real.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Real
  • Amazing

• People just get kicks out of making other people sad.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Sad
  • Just

• I'm a fan of creating the mood and vibe with flowers, candles, and music. I love making my guests feel like it's not formal and they can relax in my home.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Mood

• Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Life
  • Science
  • Interesting

• I contribute my best in my sport and I also have a ton of respect for myself and my family.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Family
  • Respect
  • Best

• I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • History
  • See
  • Collaboration

• In emerging markets, slow growth in the advanced economies has shut down a traditional development path: export-led growth. As a result, emerging markets have had to rely once again on domestic demand. This is always a difficult task, given the temptation to over-stimulate.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Growth
  • Path
  • Temptation

• Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Society
  • Ornament
  • Graceful

• My sleep is very important, and I have to have at least eight hours every night in order to function properly the next day. Unfortunately, flying through several time zones makes me disorientated, and it takes several days to readjust.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Time
  • Important
  • Night

• Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.

  

  Gary Kovacs
  • Internet
  • Option
  • Accept

• President Obama was right to ban torture, but the public must understand that this decision carries a potential cost in lost information. That's what makes it a moral choice.

  

  David Ignatius
  • Lost
  • Decision
  • Moral

• I think 'Piranha' won't be in the guilty-pleasure category, because it's gonna be - well, yeah, maybe for some people. From what I've seen, it has a sense of humor about itself, and it's also really scary and really, really violent. I would call it a popcorn movie from the planet Popcorn.

  

  Adam Scott
  • People
  • Movie
  • Scary

• I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Different
  • Career
  • Try

• There's nothing worse than going out without contributing.

  

  Alastair Cook
  • Contributing
  • Going Out

• Because of my New Line upbringing, half my heart goes to scrappy independents, and half goes to mainstream, down-the-middle pop culture events. And even with those, to try to keep something fresh and original with them and try to do things that the majors miss.

  

  Michael De Luca
  • Culture
  • Things
  • Something