Harrison Ford Quotes

The best movies are made from a point of view of an understanding of human nature and an understanding of history and an understanding of what motivates people, of what makes a good movie from an emotional place.

Harrison Ford

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• Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Good
  • Results
  • Feel Good

• Do not suffer pain and torment without reason. Somebody All-Powerful and All-Compassionate owns everything. Rely on His Power and do not accuse His Compassion. Renounce grief and anxiety ad accept relief. Be rid of your troubles and find serenity.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Power
  • Pain
  • Powerful

• It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Death
  • Race

• I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Help
  • Care

• The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Children
  • Focus
  • Football

• Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Success
  • Like
  • Look

• 'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Best

• I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • World
  • Strong
  • Rest

• I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Work
  • Home
  • View

• I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Grease

• I did swimming, gymnastics, dance, and the acting was just a small part. I didn't have pushy parents; it wasn't forced upon me. They just said, 'See if you like it. If you do, great; if you don't, don't worry about it.' I was really fortunate to have that guidance and supportive parents.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Great
  • Parents
  • Small

• The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activists.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • World
  • Politics
  • Spring

• It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Life
  • Good
  • Comedy

• Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Treatment
  • Respond
  • Even

• People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Night
  • Year

• My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if we call ourselves hillbillies, it's a sort of a term of endearment, something that we have co-opted.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • You
  • Someone
  • Grandma

• Republicans have never been good at public relations.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Good
  • Never
  • Been

• Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • You
  • Myself
  • Possible

• I'm just a big homebody and love word games like Scrabble and Boggle.

  

  Sung Hi Lee
  • Games
  • Word
  • Homebody

• I don't choose stay in the state of sadness, any more than I would choose to stay in a room with the smoke alarm going off.

  

  Gloria Jones T. Rex
  • State
  • Sadness

• That's absolutely one of my most favorite movies, for so many reasons. I fought for that part; I wanted it badly. I took a lower salary, I did everything. Grace Kelly said, 'I'll never forgive you for playing that part. It was written for me. She Kelly got the prince Rainier, I got the part.'

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Movies
  • Playing
  • Prince

• Our life as consumers seems light years away from that of our grandparents. But you don't change human nature. Optimism, for me, is the belief that we can spread the opportunity for everyone to be fully human. Sustainability, like music, is an impulse to make sense of the world around us. It is core to our humanity. If you only like one composer, or think all the best music has already been written, you have reason for pessimism. If not, it is within us to have good reason for hope.

  

  Ed Mayo
  • Life
  • Music
  • Change

• After university, I was working as a stylist in the Paris theatres when I had a flash of inspiration. I made necklaces from the bikinis designed for the cabaret performers of Folies Bergeres. I was so happy with them that it was only then that I sought out formal training in jewelry.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Training
  • Inspiration
  • Jewelry

• The best movies are made from a point of view of an understanding of human nature and an understanding of history and an understanding of what motivates people, of what makes a good movie from an emotional place.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Movies
  • Human Nature
  • Point Of View