Sydney Pollack (Sydney Irwin Pollack) Quotes

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

Sydney Pollack

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• Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Words
  • Opportunity
  • Equality

• I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • You
  • Know
  • Body

• More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Me
  • Wish
  • Manager

• You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Remember
  • You
  • Forget

• Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Man
  • Belief
  • Equality

• I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.

  

  Vanity
  • Over
  • Million
  • Offended

• I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Goal
  • Win
  • Gold

• I used to have all these plans and think 'Ah, I have my whole life figured out', but then I realized no matter how much I plan: life happens! So I find myself living day to day trying to do my best, embracing every moment as a learning opportunity and chance to get to know myself a little more.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Opportunity

• In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Work
  • Interesting

• High-quality alternative educational settings should be available when students violate codes of conduct and need to be removed from the classroom while still maintaining access to instruction. And there must be social, health and psychological services to address students' needs.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • High
  • Health
  • Quality

• I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Experience
  • Human
  • Psychology

• I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Strong
  • Horse
  • Holidays

• In N.Y.C., I auditioned for mostly 'quirky friend' roles. Since casting directors in L.A. lacked a preconceived notion of me, I was able to reinvent my type a bit, which was essential in booking the role of Amanda on 'Ugly Betty.' I don't believe I would have auditioned for that role in N.Y.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Friend

• We think of bitcoin as mobile. It's not one company; it's broad.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Think
  • Company
  • Bitcoin

• Parallel to our vast strides in technology, there is a dangerous rise in unemployment, foreclosures, and degrading education. Millions of people are stricken with hopelessness and strife. Sadly, in the name of progress we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • People
  • Education
  • Food

• When I played my first concert with an orchestra, I was eight years old in Berlin.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • First
  • Old
  • Orchestra

• Part of this country's problem is that people from New York City - Wall Streeters - don't think about the little guy who can't afford things.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • People
  • Country
  • Guy

• I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme violence and torture.

  

  Jayne Ann Krentz
  • Violence
  • Romantic

• Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Country
  • Night

• The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is a question of quantities; they must be treated with precision. I have never had more satisfaction than in proving this in the realms of art, politics and history.

  

  Hippolyte Taine
  • History
  • Study
  • Politics

• As a teenager, I was involved in animal rights activism, and followed the tail end of the first wave of AIDS awareness – I was going to protests, and plugged in to all these causes, but I never really made the connection to electoral politics.

  

  Justin Brannan Caninus
  • Politics
  • Activism
  • Protests

• I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

  

  Sydney Pollack
  • Politics
  • Shame
  • Show Business