Harold Pinter Quotes

There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.

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• There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Me
  • Nothing

• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Person
  • Unique
  • Teen

• I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Life
  • Live
  • Remember

• My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Him

• I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Field
  • United
  • Off

• These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Support
  • Become
  • Immigrants

• If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Technology
  • Quality
  • Suffering

• You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Live
  • Experience

• Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

  

  Harold Kushner
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Running

• If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Think
  • Competition
  • Taste

• I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.

  

  Ian Hart
  • American
  • Films
  • Attracted

• I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Book
  • Know
  • Famous

• I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Friends
  • Nice
  • Down

• China should cut heavy industries' share in gross domestic output by 9 percentage points between 2013 and 2030 to meet its pollution cuts target.

  

  Ma Jun
  • China
  • Target
  • Pollution

• Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Hurt
  • Feel
  • Humiliated

• I would like to thank my colleagues for voting a Social Democrat prime minister and to assure them I will vote a liberal president, as well.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Vote
  • Voting
  • Colleagues

• I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.

  

  Ben Horowitz
  • Life
  • Choices
  • Popular

• My parents had never been to Germany. But I knew what I didn't want to write about, and I didn't want to write about Edinburgh. A lot of writers find Edinburgh fascinating, but I never did. As a matter of fact, I couldn't wait to get away from it.

  

  Philip Kerr
  • Parents

• If golfers know they look good, they will play better. I think that is valid for men and women.

  

  Letitia Baldrige
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• It's got a lot more room for nuance and an assumption that people have started from the beginning. 'Bloodline' ends up being like a really good novel.

  

  Ben Mendelsohn
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.

  

  J. J. Johnson
  • Community
  • Never
  • Lucky

• There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Good
  • Rules
  • Some