Ray Allen Quotes

Whether that is me retiring, staying here or going somewhere else, it will be on my terms. I've made it to this point, and I felt great that I have the choice to make it for myself.

Ray Allen

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• Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Culture
  • Movies
  • Games

• Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

  

  Barbara Goldsmith
  • Art
  • History
  • Question

• It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• Those who live are those who fight.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Live
  • Fight
  • Those

• When we started the e-commerce, nobody believed that China would have e-commerce because people believed in 'guang-shi,' face-to-face, and all kinds of network in traditional ways. There's no trust system in China.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Trust
  • Nobody

• He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.

  

  Fra Angelico
  • Live
  • Story
  • Wishes

• I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Bad
  • English
  • Stupid

• A nascent economy needs a transparent and accountable government and an efficient civil service to help meet social needs. Its people need jobs and a belief in their country's future. A surfeit of aid has been shown to be unable to help achieve these goals.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • People
  • Country
  • Help

• Palestinians have had to live for a long time with the fact that Israelis had power over them in their everyday lives.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Live

• We need the humbleness and clarity to see that our food, while benefitting from technological advances, has benefitted even more from free ecological resources: Cheap energy, lots of water everywhere, and a stable climate.

  

  Dan Barber
  • Free
  • Energy
  • Food

• Scared out of his seven senses.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Scared
  • Senses

• Sexy ain't guys like Churchill and Lincoln.

  

  Neil Cavuto
  • Sexy

• I'm obsessed with golf, so I love going to play golf.

  

  Chris Lane
  • Golf

• The only sci-fi movie that I've ever been offered that, had circumstances been different, I would have definitely done, was 'Avatar.' And I literally couldn't do it because of my schedule. But listening to James Cameron talk about 'Avatar' was so fascinating. Because he literally invented the world in his mind - and it literally existed.

  

  Matt Damon
  • World
  • Different
  • Mind

• It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don't, but I think they have, and to me that's gratifying. It's worth it.

  

  Charlie Watts The Rolling Stones
  • People

• Any time you find yourself doing something out of obligation, that's a time you should start questioning whether you're spending your time wisely.

  

  Payal Kadakia
  • Time

• I can't just pretend to be someone else all my life. I have to mix it up.

  

  Ella Purnell
  • Life
  • Up

• If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.

  

  Alan King
  • Funny

• You don’t break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I don’t.

  

  Barry Lyga
  • Argument
  • Breakup

• When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway - in France we have Nathalie Sarraute - and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater. I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• Listen. Say yes. Live in the moment. Make sure you play with people who have your back. Make big choices early and often.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Live
  • Choices

• The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

  

  Ethel Barrymore
  • Idea
  • Event

• Whether that is me retiring, staying here or going somewhere else, it will be on my terms. I've made it to this point, and I felt great that I have the choice to make it for myself.

  

  Ray Allen
  • Choices
  • Made
  • Term