Nicky Oppenheimer Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
-
My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
-
You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
-
I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as quick as possible and move away. I had to break this inhibition before becoming an actor.
-
We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
-
We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
-
I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.
-
Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.
-
Contrary to common belief, the presumption of innocence applies only inside a courtroom. It has no applicability elsewhere, although the media do not seem to be aware of this.
-
I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.
-
I have lots of micro-goals of trying to get things done, whatever the amount of time available.
-
When things go wrong, the standard management strategy is to decide who takes the blame. This should be an underling, as far down the chain as possible, but preferably with some visibility so people know management means business.
-
Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.
-
The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten.
-
Often by the time writers and producers try to get a new hit song, the industry has already moved on. Whatever you're creating might not be as hot as it would have been during the time of your first hit. It definitely compromises the creative process when the music is changing and evolving so fast. If you're not on top of it, you will be forgotten.
-
Perhaps it has been too uncomfortable for those with vested interests to acknowledge, but we have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.
-
I think I'd like my hair to be perfect.
-
Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
-
My parents were ballet dancers, and I did a lot of ballet, too, so I think I learned quite early on how to hold my body. Although I do recall desperately wishing I was shorter at school.
-
If I am going to know who Jesus is, I must obey Him. The majority of us don't know Jesus because we have not the remotest intention of obeying Him.
-
Quiero por lo que quise, y lo que quise, no volverÃa a quererlo.
-
How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!
-
The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
-
Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.
