Mike Oldfield Quotes
I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now. I don't have any friends; I just have lawyers.
Quotes to Explore
-
The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
-
I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
-
I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
-
If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
-
I have fabulous children.
-
Takers believe in a zero-sum world, and they end up creating one where bosses, colleagues and clients don't trust them. Givers build deeper and broader relationships - people are rooting for them instead of gunning for them.
-
I don't believe in strong-arming people.
-
I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
-
In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
-
One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
-
I always gravitate towards characters that are so opposite of me.
-
I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
-
There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
-
Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.
-
I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.
-
You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
-
I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.
-
People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
-
But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.
-
I completely took off my eyebrows one time for a screen test. I hadn't even gotten the role yet. So you have to have a commitment.
-
Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.
-
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
-
It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
-
I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now. I don't have any friends; I just have lawyers.
