Alec Soth Quotes

Nobody really wants to be alone. People need people.

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• If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.

  

  Mahavira
  • Character
  • Want
  • Effort

• I listen to 'deep dish house'.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • House
  • Deep
  • Listen

• Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Long
  • Film
  • Three

• There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Life
  • Basic
  • Supplied

• At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • History
  • Vote
  • Opinions

• If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Strong
  • Growth
  • Achieve

• We'd accept Germany either allowing all migrants in or not allowing any in. But whatever Germany decides should only apply to Germany.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Accept
  • Germany
  • Apply

• I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Up
  • Time
  • Internet

• I know how addictive videogames are - I have friends who can't get up off the couch because they're so hooked. They provide these different virtual worlds that you can live in.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Up
  • Different
  • Live

• Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.

  

  Pat Burns
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Silent

• I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Singing

• I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • People
  • Think
  • Internet

• We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Women
  • True
  • Slavery

• I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Power
  • Very
  • Vocation

• If you try to follow everyone else's mold, you'll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • God
  • You
  • Try

• Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Political
  • Giving
  • Sword

• When you're younger, your inspiration is there. As you get older, it tends to waver. Once you find it - I found it again - that's where you can draw from. That's where you draw your strength from.

  

  Elvis Stojko
  • Inspiration
  • Waver

• I'm a slow learner. When people are so talented or facile at picking up an instrument and playing covers, like Yo La Tengo, I admire that. But I could never do that.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • People
  • Up

• Higher unemployment generally bodes well for franchising. People are looking for a new opportunity, and people who have jobs are a little less confident they'll always have a job.

  

  Fred DeLuca
  • People
  • Job
  • Opportunity

• I probably like being isolated more than many people do, but I'm lucky to have the friendship of many fine people, and they keep me from becoming very isolated. The world of my mind is certainly a populated and warm place, too. It's difficult for me to become too isolated with such resources.

  

  Jesse Ball
  • People
  • World
  • Mind

• The biggest threat, when it comes to climate change and pollution, isn't going to come from us because we only have 300 million people. It's going to come from China with over 1 billion people and India with over 1 billion people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People

• Nobody really wants to be alone. People need people.

  

  Alec Soth
  • People
  • Alone
  • Need