Todd Solondz Quotes

I don't make movies with the idea that people are going to walk out of them feeling comfortable or better about themselves or more secure in their own biases or opinions.

Todd Solondz

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• I feel comfortable at 154 lbs.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Feel
  • Comfortable
  • I Feel

• If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Fight

• I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • People
  • Life
  • Feelings

• I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Own
  • Comfortable
  • Skin

• When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.

  

  Yves Behar
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Vision

• It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.

  

  Ferdinand Christian Baur
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Circumstances

• Anyone who is secure about herself shouldn't be threatened by the ads I do.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Secure
  • Threatened
  • Herself

• Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Carrying

• I'm always looking for complicated characters in fiction about whom I can feel a dozen feelings at once - in the space of a single paragraph, even.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Single
  • Space
  • Feelings

• I could try to incorporate or reflect in my models what it is that an employee, manager, or entrepreneur does: to recognize that most are engaged in their work, form expectations and evolve beliefs, solve problems, and have ideas. Trying to put these people into economic models became my project.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Think
  • Church
  • Feelings

• Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Best
  • Ideas
  • Someone

• In my humble opinion, the ages 22 to about 27 are the most critical years of your adult life. It's your time to gestate in the cocoon of becoming.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Time
  • Opinion

• To me, I was right from the beginning, because it's my right as an American to speak up and question our president, have my point of view, have my opinion, question what I want to question, and say what I want to say about our government.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Up
  • American
  • Question

• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Ideas

• I'm not really a knob-twiddler. I always work with an engineer; I'm not super hands-on when it comes to mixing boards and computers. I'm much more about what I'm hearing and what it needs to be like. I deal with songs and ideas and instruments.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Work
  • Ideas
  • Computers

• I knew I had more in me than just standing up and having my picture taken... Being in the studio, I have to have an opinion.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Opinion
  • Picture
  • Studio

• The difference that a drama group or a cinema club can make to a small village or a town. It opens people up to ideas, potential about themselves that really, in a way, education often fails to. It's a way of drawing a community together.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • People
  • Up
  • Together

• I think it's important in a democracy such as ours that we have multiple sources to get news and information and utilize the media only if we want to get a different opinion.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • Different
  • Important
  • Opinion

• The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Work
  • Great
  • Art

• Elections in India are not contests between personalities. They are ultimately battles involving political parties; promises and pledges that political parties make; the vision and programmes that political parties bring to the table. So although, Modi's style is 'I, me, myself,' I don't think 2014 elections as a Modi versus Rahul contest.

  

  Jairam Ramesh
  • Political
  • Style
  • Vision

• In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Work
  • Rejection
  • Waves

• When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand, … Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom, I am silent, I require nothing further, I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity beyond the grave, But I walk or sit indifferent, I am satisfied, He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Wisdom
  • I Love
  • Satisfied

• I don't make movies with the idea that people are going to walk out of them feeling comfortable or better about themselves or more secure in their own biases or opinions.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Ideas
  • Opinion
  • Feelings