Ray Kurzweil Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
-
If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
-
When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
-
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
-
If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
-
My dad worked two jobs his whole life, and so I told him he's the reason I have 20 jobs.
-
Some actors can create characters and leave them at 'Cut!', but I work the opposite way and drag them out of me. For me, it's about fixing your fabric to fit the role.
-
I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.
-
I always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in America, I find in small roles or in supporting roles really amazing faces, where I have the feeling these people have actually had a life outside of acting. I find it almost a pity that I've never done anything else.
-
I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.'
-
The blessing of my mother is that she is so interested, she is so bright, she never complains - the joy of the Lord just bubbles out of her. Anybody who's in her presence is blessed to be there.
-
I mean I like most of the films that I've seen that I've been in.
-
We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.
-
Much before I entered films, my dad walked into my room and saw me busy drawing something at 3 A.M. He stood there for some time and said, 'Whatever career choice you make, you are going to be successful.' I'll never forget those words. It gave me the confidence to be who I am today.
-
I never want to forget that I'm doing an impossible thing. How rare is it that you get to be part of something people love? It's really special. It's a very out-of-body experience to be a part of something so huge.
-
The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.
-
Certainly, living in the U.S., as I have for over two decades, you see how Asians are portrayed in the media... I didn't see myself represented, you know, when I used to look at ads on TV.
-
I hope there is a place for me in the country landscape, but I'm not too precious about it, either.
-
To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got my first theater job checking coats at the National, which was Washington's main theater.
-
I'm not a fan of musicals. Never have been.
-
We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.
-
We all would love sometimes to be free from our own knowledge. It is even the most difficult to unlearn - as the most important problems are.
-
Films set in 90210 are ten a penny. But there's rarely room to make films about a different postal code, to show the lives of ordinary Americans who have to live with very limited material resources.
-
What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.
