Mike White Quotes

People don't go to see things in the theater for the same reasons that I do. And movies are about mass audiences. And so moviegoers are going for a different kind of drug than for a certain kind of literary quality.

Mike White

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• There have been interviews with people saying they are jealous of Kangana. There are so many people who are jealous of my success.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Success
  • Saying

• If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Fight

• Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.

  

  Karen Kain
  • People
  • Love
  • Remember

• I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers - which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • People
  • Energy
  • Air

• It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Music
  • Girl

• In a free society, we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people, we publicly criticize that, and don't belong to those groups or don't associate with those people.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Society
  • Free

• Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • People
  • Women
  • Professional

• I don't have any plans to pursue film acting. It's not my thing anymore, if it ever was. Yes, I do still act sometimes. But when I do, it's with people I know and trust, people who respect me as a person and appreciate what I have to offer.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Trust

• If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Different
  • Success
  • Story

• I am a five-foot six-inch, dark, ordinary-looking man. People didn't imagine that I would make it.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Man
  • Dark

• We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I would definitely like to start working with more people over age 7.

  

  Beck Bennett
  • People
  • Age
  • Start

• Sometimes I Google myself just to see what people are saying. But we all do that. If someone tells you that they don't, then they are lying.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • People
  • Myself
  • Saying

• People may not know this about me, but I've always loved cooking. My favorite thing to cook is my mom's spicy spaghetti.

  

  Becky G
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Value
  • Things

• Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. A young man in love is essentially enraptured by the forces within himself.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it's really strange. But when I can feel proud of myself for causing it, it's great.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • People
  • Great
  • Proud

• I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.

  

  Chris Hayes
  • People
  • Angry

• We investigate in secret so that we don't smear innocent people.

  

  James Comey
  • People
  • Innocent

• Whatever you do as an artist, people have to have an experience. It's not about the details or the wrong note or what tuning the piano is. It doesn't matter. It all doesn't matter. It only matters what people think when they leave the room and what their impression was.

  

  Nils Frahm
  • People
  • Impression
  • Piano

• The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• It's not that complicated. If you hear something and it makes you want to hear it again, that's the ticket. You have to be lucky enough to find geniuses, welcome them and get out of their way.

  

  Jerry Moss

• Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.

  

  Hector Hugh Munro
  • World
  • Dramatist
  • Sherard Blaw

• People don't go to see things in the theater for the same reasons that I do. And movies are about mass audiences. And so moviegoers are going for a different kind of drug than for a certain kind of literary quality.

  

  Mike White
  • People
  • Different
  • Quality