Norman Jewison Quotes

I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.

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• All men begin their learning with Homer.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Men
  • Learning
  • Begin

• Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.

  

  Ian Smith
  • Freedom
  • Justice
  • Courage

• To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect the United States with the emerging historical context of the twenty-first century. He has done this remarkably well.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Done
  • Effort

• DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Same
  • Privacy
  • E-mail

• I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so lucky.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Never
  • Lucky

• I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Job
  • Help

• In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Age
  • Alone
  • Focus

• Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Government
  • Protect
  • Presidential

• Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Life
  • Better
  • Everyday

• It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Better

• I love Lancome's L'Absolu Rouge lipstick, as it lasts. Unless you spend the whole night snogging, you won't need to reapply it.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Night
  • Need
  • Snogging

• The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Done
  • Greatest
  • Excuses

• There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Men
  • Drinking

• I have no regrets. I've got my health.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Health
  • Regrets
  • No Regrets

• We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Men
  • Community
  • Courage

• I've always been a fan of science fiction.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Science
  • Always
  • Fiction

• Some people have been talking about - every place I go, they bring up the issue of foreign aid. I go, 'You can't get rid of all foreign aid.'

  

  Dan Webster
  • People
  • Up
  • Place

• I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Always
  • Tried
  • Object

• I do love dance music. I love Daft Punk. I mean, I was a child in the '80s, so bands like the Eurythmics and just so many great '80s bands were dance bands, but they had the whole soul thing happening, too.

  

  Corin Tucker
  • Great
  • Music
  • Soul

• Whatever we are directed to pray for, we are also exhorted to work for; we are not permitted to mock Jehovah, asking that of Him which we deem not worth our pains to acquire.

  

  Elias Lyman Magoon
  • Work
  • Pray
  • Pains

• Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential.

  

  Wendy Wasserstein
  • Mother
  • Born
  • Genius

• The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Laugh
  • Make
  • Point

• The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • History
  • Process
  • Films

• I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.

  

  Norman Jewison
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  • Films
  • Prizes