Tom Conti (Thomas Antonio Conti) Quotes

If you didn't join for the girls, choose another profession.

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• After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
  • Society
  • Rest

• Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

  

  Dale Dauten
  • Time
  • Success
  • Failure

• Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Politics

• Just to confirm to all my followers I have had a hair transplant. I was going bald at 25 why not.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Why
  • Hair
  • Bald

• Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Girlfriend
  • Dating

• I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it's so easy to revise, I tended to stay on the same page. I've learned to discipline myself.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Up
  • Black
  • Myself

• Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility
  • Exercise

• America is about choices, including those to live certain lifestyles.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Live
  • America
  • Choices

• I'm lucky that I do something I love, and I am proud, as I think it's a positive message to give to young women: if you want to have a career and be married with children, then you can. It's full-on, but it's doable.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Women
  • Children
  • Career

• Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Air

• Si nada se nos fuera durante la vida, se nos iría la vida sin nada.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• As much as innovation is important, I think we also need to just make stuff. If we look at Kenya, where I'm from, as an example, we are importing everything down to toothpicks.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Important
  • Innovation

• I didn't always have research jobs.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell

• I'm kind of well-known in Holland, which is nice. But in Holland, we're down to earth; there are no paparazzi in my garden and no autograph hunters at the door. We have 'Strictly Come Dancing,' but I've not been asked.

  

  Marianne Vos
  • Earth
  • Nice
  • Door

• I loved 'Clueless.' That was one of my favorite movies of all time.

  

  Amanda Bynes
  • Time

• If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

  

  Mary Astell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Free

• Design is not so much a design issue as a power struggle.

  

  Alan Cooper
  • Power
  • Struggle
  • Design

• History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Long
  • History
  • Freedom

• By nature, I think I am a pretty private person, and that is what is hard even doing interviews for films that I really love doing, because in some ways, it diminishes the experience that I had.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Experience
  • Nature
  • Interviews

• I thought the two ugly ones were sisters, but they got very insulted when I asked them. You could tell neither one of them wanted to look like the other one, and you couldn't blame them, but it was very amusing anyway.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Ugly

• A black dress is beautiful! It's a good choice. It could be the wrong choice at certain events or situations, but it's very rare that you see a girl who looks bad in a black dress.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Beautiful

• In my profession it isn’t a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money — it’s always been like that. What do I, an agent, get out of a literary genius who won’t be discovered for another hundred years? I’ll be dead myself then. Successful incompetents are what I need.

  

  Walter Moers
  • Literature
  • Making
  • Profession

• 'McLeod's Daughters' was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-time role. That was great because I learned a lot, in terms of working in front of the camera.

  

  Dustin Clare
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• If you didn't join for the girls, choose another profession.

  

  Tom Conti
  • Girl
  • Profession