Mitchell Hurwitz Quotes

With 'Arrested Development,' we tried showing the deep disdain that connects a family. We wanted to hold up a mirror to American society. And, just as predicted, America looked away.

Mitchell Hurwitz

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• The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Women
  • Best
  • Path

• Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Want
  • Success
  • Successful

• Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • May
  • Perfect
  • Understanding

• I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • Remember
  • Winning
  • Goal

• President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Security
  • Reputation

• I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Just

• We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Simple
  • Couple
  • Risk

• Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Fly
  • Clothes
  • Jeans

• When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Talent
  • Kid

• The federal government has gone too far on many nonessential regulations that are harming small businesses. Employers are rightly concerned about the costs of these regulations - so they stop hiring, stop spending, and start saving for a bill from the federal government.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Stop
  • Government

• A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Ideas
  • Religious
  • Belief

• I used to play a lot of tennis and then, next thing you know, same thing with tennis. That banging on the knees, the jarring, twisting motion - I couldn't do it. All of a sudden, every time I played, my knee would swell up.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Play

• I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Live
  • Desire
  • Religion

• Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Music
  • Business
  • New

• One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Society
  • Culture

• If a democratic society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and wellbeing will be shared by all; the sciences will be on a smaller scale but ignorance will be less common; opinions will be less vigorous and habits gentler; you will notice more vices and fewer crimes.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Society
  • Ignorance

• Never go anywhere you have to wear brown shoes.

  

  Bill Nighy
  • Shoes

• It's great to fall head over heels in love at a fast pace, and nothing's more romantic, but you need to look after yourself.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Great
  • Fall
  • Romantic

• You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come.

  

  Kevin Costner

• I remember, my very first day at a new school, a bird pooped all down my back. It was like any other day of school except everyone was like, 'Oh my God, you're from the movie 'Big Daddy,'' and I had bird poop all over me.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • God
  • School
  • Remember

• When I was in my mid-20s, I traveled a lot around the world, and the question I had for everyone I talked to was, 'What is your conception of God?' I found that everybody basically felt the same: God is within and without. He's in everything.

  

  Dennis Quaid
  • World
  • God
  • Question

• I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Family
  • Character
  • Society

• 'Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream' is an intentionally angry film. How could it not be when the chance of an infant dying is five times greater on the Bronx Park Avenue than on Manhattan's Park Avenue just across the Harlem River?

  

  Alex Gibney
  • Money
  • Power
  • American

• With 'Arrested Development,' we tried showing the deep disdain that connects a family. We wanted to hold up a mirror to American society. And, just as predicted, America looked away.

  

  Mitchell Hurwitz
  • Family
  • American
  • Development