Mike Binder Quotes

I have a spot on the horizon that I'm trying to hit: To write and direct adult dramedies. First of all, there's really not a big market for them. Second of all, it's like cracking a diamond. You've got to do it right.

Mike Binder

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• I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Good
  • Children
  • Education

• What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Responsibility
  • Greed

• To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Good
  • Important
  • Struggle

• The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Work
  • Think
  • Way

• When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • War
  • Government
  • Group

• I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Want
  • Decisions
  • Option

• Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Country
  • Beauty
  • Movies

• It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.

  

  Randy Newman
  • People
  • Music
  • Mind

• Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Political
  • Numbers
  • Data

• My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Mother

• I want people to tell me the truth.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • People
  • Truth
  • Me

• I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Good
  • Music
  • Live

• My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • College
  • Teaching
  • Aim

• I draft tweets, like, 20 times.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Like
  • Times
  • Draft

• The 13-episode model lends itself to a more serialised format, which is nice and gives writers a chance to breathe some space into it.

  

  Eddie Cahill
  • Nice
  • Space
  • Chance

• I was always a very good student, 3.98 GPA... But once I found out I only had to take math and science for two years, I didn't take them junior or senior year. And I convinced my high school to give me actual credits for doing professional shows in Minneapolis... as work-study.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Good
  • Work
  • School

• I'm really careful with what the music gets put with, and we say no to so much stuff, loads of it, for things that might quadruple the sales of my album. But if it doesn't fit then it doesn't fit, you know?

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Know
  • Sales

• My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Laugh
  • Cry
  • Pertinacity

• Women's liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search-for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love. But while women's liberation was thought of as promoting identity, the male midlife crisis was thought of as an identity crisis.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Respect
  • Identity

• Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Good
  • Mind

• When the waif look first came into fashion, Anna Nicole Smith was in the Guess campaigns looking like a real woman. A girl who looks too thin and unhealthy does not look sexy to me, and she does not look right for Guess.

  

  Paul Marciano
  • Fashion
  • Woman
  • Campaign

• Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Up
  • Important
  • Ideas

• It's about the journey and the process. I do things because I love doing them, or trying them.

  

  Liz Phair
  • Trying
  • Journey

• I have a spot on the horizon that I'm trying to hit: To write and direct adult dramedies. First of all, there's really not a big market for them. Second of all, it's like cracking a diamond. You've got to do it right.

  

  Mike Binder
  • Trying
  • First
  • Diamond