Todd Solondz Quotes

But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am.

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• When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • History
  • Moral

• The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Good
  • Great
  • Writing

• I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • You
  • Me
  • Tell

• You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Life
  • Police

• Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Stage
  • Walk
  • Affection

• The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Complexity
  • Explode

• I think we respond well when we do something well.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Think
  • Something
  • Respond

• Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Mother
  • House
  • Night

• Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • War
  • Popular
  • See

• When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Kids
  • Father

• We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Up
  • Song

• If there was a time when 'The Ecologist' appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn't do 'The Ecologist,' but I think it is useful.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Time
  • Think
  • Doing

• The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Innovation

• Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.

  

  Dan Savage
  • War
  • Political
  • Culture

• I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • People
  • Society
  • Opinion

• 'Biodiesel seems to be the answer to a lot of our prayers. Not only can it help the U.S. economy, our unwanted dependence on foreign oil, and the gasping environment, it could also help the family farmers out of this tragic dilemma they have found themselves in through no fault of their own.'

  

  Willie Nelson
  • Family
  • Help
  • Environment

• In my judgment excellence and wealth are direct opposites.

  

  Apollonius of Tyana
  • Excellence

• Compromise is not such ignoble and deplorable a thing as we generally think. It is rather an indispensable factor in the political strategy. Any nation that rises against the oppressors is bound to fail in the beginning and to gain partial reforms during the medieval period of its struggle through compromises.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • Political
  • Beginning
  • Struggle

• Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • American
  • Differences
  • Issues

• We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease.

  

  Sargent Shriver
  • Racism
  • Disease

• I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.

  

  K. Flay
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Important

• I think, like all big things, you don't know they're going to be a big thing when you start. You just kind of, like, play because it's fun, and it's interesting, and then it turns out to be way more important than you expected.

  

  Anthony Levandowski
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Interesting

• I do read on holiday, but it tends to be very lowbrow. I'm into really camp biographies, and I'm a shameless fan of Jilly Cooper.

  

  Miranda Raison
  • Really
  • Shameless
  • Biographies

• But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Important
  • Anonymity