Sam Peckinpah Quotes
There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.Sam Peckinpah
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I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
Patricia Riggen -
It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
Saint Ambrose -
I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.
Adam Cohen -
With acting, I didn't get much from it.
Karl Pilkington -
People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.
Padma Lakshmi
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I was really trying to sell to people who hate jazz: to make a case for the art form as youthful and energetic, not the sort of rarified intellectual activity it's painted as.
Damien Chazelle -
Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
'What is the secret of your serenity? Said the Master 'Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.'
Anthony de Mello -
There’s obviously always danger in making music or art for art’s sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift.
Steven Curtis Chapman -
Estque dei sedes nisi terra et pontus et aeret caelum et virtus? superos quid quaerimus ultra?Jupiter est quodcumque vides, quocumque moveris.
Lucan -
If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college.
Lewis Black
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I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Emo Philips -
Every problem that is interesting is also soluble.
David Deutsch -
Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.
Christopher Eccleston -
I love Eighties rock.
Brantley Gilbert -
I like the variety. But basically my choice of films is a small intimate film. Quiet film, no action, just people in relationships. That's what I like the most.
Jerry Goldsmith -
To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
Marlene Dietrich
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Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.
Brian Tracy -
I depend on good editors and a good director.
Indira Varma -
In the dictionary of Satyagraha, there is no enemy.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Men wake up aroused in the morning. We can't help it. We just wake up and we want you. And the women are thinking, "How can he want me the way I look in the morning?" It's because we can't see you. We have no blood anywhere near our optic nerve.
Andy Rooney -
You never really know what's going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they're going to behave.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.
Sam Peckinpah