Raul Ruiz Quotes

When I graduated, I was told I was the first Latino to have three graduate degrees from Harvard. And Harvard does something amazing to you. It opens the doors to the world.

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• I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

  

  Ira Glass
  • Job
  • Wish
  • Day

• Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Want
  • Black
  • Blue

• I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Happy
  • Song
  • Know

• An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Working
  • Year
  • Active

• All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Life
  • You
  • Well

• It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Always
  • Bring
  • Reform

• See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Love
  • Game
  • Competition

• Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • Business
  • Science
  • Politics

• I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Long
  • Remember
  • I Can

• As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Food
  • Control
  • Living

• Do you know what integration really means? It means intermarriage. That's the real point behind it. You can't have it without intermarriage. And that would result in disintegration of both races.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Real
  • Know
  • Behind

• Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each other's presence.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Presence
  • Holidays
  • Sharing

• You don't get happy by sitting around going on, 'Oh this is a horrible situation, what to do?' You've got to find the courage to change that. I think change is extremely hard for people.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • People
  • Happy
  • Change

• Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Powerful
  • Problems
  • Welcome

• The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • People
  • American
  • Happy

• God is a verb, not a noun.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • God
  • Verb
  • Noun

• Nothing can conduce more to the order and stability of a government than the simplicity of the laws, the proper definition of rights, and their impartial and consistent administration.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Government
  • Simplicity

• Too often, we have tended to fall into a trap of creating plain hamburgers.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Fall
  • Creating
  • Often

• I would argue that Asean has been instrumental in driving both economic growth and political development, and that there can be no clearer example than its relations with Myanmar.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Political
  • Growth
  • Driving

• When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• 'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Cool
  • Battle
  • Instinct

• You don't have to be something to do something.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • You
  • Something

• It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an interruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gesture mean nothing, or mean too much.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Future
  • Mean

• When I graduated, I was told I was the first Latino to have three graduate degrees from Harvard. And Harvard does something amazing to you. It opens the doors to the world.

  

  Raul Ruiz
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  • Degrees
  • Latino