Mike Stoller Quotes

I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my taste was far greater than my ability.

Mike Stoller

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• It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Balance
  • Questions
  • Finding

• Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Government
  • Phenomenon

• When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Death
  • Myself
  • Failure

• I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Never
  • Hopeless
  • Bright

• The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble person. There are only souls. There is only love.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Experiences

• Our lives are in God's hands. We have no control. We can't control Him by using the Bible or cross as a good luck charm without a thorough reformation of heart and life.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• I've dressed thousands of actors, actresses and animals, but whenever I am asked which star is my personal favorite, I answer, 'Grace Kelly.' She is a charming lady, a most gifted actress and, to me, a valued friend.

  

  Edith Head
  • Friend
  • Star
  • Grace Kelly

• It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.

  

  Dana Fox
  • Life
  • Work
  • Women

• I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Money
  • Group
  • Motives

• The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Country
  • Fall

• I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Children
  • Remember
  • Age

• After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Country
  • Real
  • Man

• I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.

  

  Oliver North
  • Good
  • Lawyer
  • Legal

• At the earliest age, when I saw a 'wet paint' sign, I had to touch the paint to see if it was wet. When I get stopped at the stoplight in the middle of the night, and there's just no cars coming, and the light is red, I go. I don't think I'm putting anyone in harm's way, and I'll just take the consequences. Because I'm a Libertarian.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Age
  • Night
  • Light

• I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Help

• I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Today

• The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Live
  • Feeling
  • Best

• This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Growing
  • Islam

• What should be the aim of management? What is their job? Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • People
  • Job
  • Responsibility

• The best way to protect yourself and your family in this time of uncertainty is to create wealth for yourself.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Family
  • Wealth
  • Create

• I'd rather try and cram in another two gags than leave a pause to say, 'Hey, wasn't that bit funny?'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Funny
  • Try
  • Pause

• They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • People
  • Women
  • Mind

• It's pretty easy to think of the idea of a story, and maybe even to write a scene or two, but understanding the ebb and flow of a narrative, where to leave the little clues your protagonist (and reader) need, while playing fair, takes a lot more skill and patience than you might think.

  

  Dennis Green
  • Pretty
  • Understanding
  • Write

• I was always very leery of my piano playing. As a young kid, I wanted to be a jazz musician, but my taste was far greater than my ability.

  

  Mike Stoller
  • Ability
  • Wanted
  • Playing