Adrian Tchaikovsky Quotes

Progress is made by the improvement of people, not the improvement of machines.

Adrian Tchaikovsky

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• Bollywood has always pampered heroes and treated actors as second class citizens. But, of late, it has realised that there has to be space for actors who can connect with people.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Space
  • Heroes

• A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a politician can stop people from injuries. A politician can take a step so that no person is scared tomorrow.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Help
  • Stop

• I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!

  

  Bam Margera
  • People
  • Old
  • Trees

• Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • True
  • Wish

• It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • People
  • Together
  • True

• The big businesses are less willing to take risks. I talked to some young people in Hong Kong, and they said they are lost. Young people indeed have fewer opportunities than before. But is it true that there are no more opportunities for them? No!

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • True
  • Lost

• I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• Music is really something that makes people whole.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Music
  • Something

• I've always loved fashion and, of course, enjoyed my experiences walking on runways, but I love watching the shows as well! Now I understand more why it's such a big deal for the industry and why people work so hard before and during fashion weeks. It's interesting to see the same things from a different angle.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • People
  • Work
  • Fashion

• If you go to Norway, Finland, Russia or Australia, you'll see Xerox or Fuji-Xerox people, not just the name on the door. We have human beings who live and work and serve customers everywhere around the globe.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• I want to be remembered like Pete Rose. 'Charlie Hustle.' I want people to say, 'Wherever he was, he was always giving it his all.'

  

  Walter Payton
  • People
  • Giving
  • Rose

• I've heard stories of people meeting the loves of their lives online, and that's great. But it freaks me out.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • People
  • Great
  • Meeting

• When 'Attachments' came out and people liked it, I'd have a warm feeling of having made a connection.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Connection

• I know as soon as a game is finished if I have done well. I don't need people to tell me. I want to achieve perfection.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • People
  • Game
  • Know

• But I, you know, if I could choose a period to go back to, I think I would like to live through the Blitz. 'Cause you do read so many accounts of people saying they're living their lives at such an intense pitch that it was a completely different way of living.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• We want people to listen to records, to a whole body of music. I want you to buy into my life, not just one subject in my life.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Any time I was at Trader Joes, and the person bagging my stuff would be like, 'Did I go to college with you? How do I know you?' Then it took awhile, and suddenly people were like, 'Oh, you are the girl from 'United States of Tara.'

  

  Brie Larson
  • People
  • Time
  • Girl

• Bowling, I like bowling. I've been getting into this bowling thing. It's kinda fun.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Fun
  • Like
  • Bowling

• I've always thought if you watch the performance and you don't know about the person, then you only see the performance.

  

  Janet McTeer

• I mean, like, rock n' roll was always about spirit and fun.

  

  Jeffrey Ross Hyman Ramones
  • Fun
  • Rock

• Improv seemed to replace stand-up, which was very big before that. Stand-up comedy was real hot in the late '80s and through the '90s.

  

  Joe Flaherty
  • Up
  • Real
  • Comedy

• Progress is made by the improvement of people, not the improvement of machines.

  

  Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • People
  • Progress
  • Improvement