Tom Green (Michael Thomas Green) Quotes

I always try to approach things from the point of authenticity. I've done that for my short films, working with non-actors from the real environments where you go exploring and placing them into the cast alongside professional actors.

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• The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • War
  • Peace
  • Day

• In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Life
  • Cool
  • Will

• You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Happy
  • Team
  • Day

• The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Up
  • World
  • Sleep

• Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Feelings
  • Everything
  • Hurts

• My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Hand

• My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Me
  • Play
  • Mom

• If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Education
  • Peace
  • Fight

• The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Reality
  • Free
  • Unknown

• Anyone who is afraid to lose isn't ready to win.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Win
  • Lose
  • Ready

• In the end, I was doing night shoots on 'Gilmore Girls' and then wrapping and going straight from 'Gilmore Girls' to 'Roadies.'

  

  Tanc Sade
  • Night
  • End
  • Doing

• All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • War

• It's like 60 Minutes on acid.

  

  David Byrne Talking Heads

• 'I know it's easy to imagine but its easier to just 'do'If you can't 'do' what you imaginethen what is imagination to you?'

  

  Kid Cudi
  • Imagination

• Fox was interested in a different title to 'Independence Day.'

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Different

• In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.

  

  Bill Condon
  • Black
  • English

• A bunch of chairs lined up in front of a podium equals school.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Up
  • School

• The knowledge of past times and of the places on the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Mind
  • Past
  • Earth

• I used to get made fun of a lot for being a male dancer, especially growing up in Boston. Kids are terrible, they don't realize how heavy words can be.

  

  Kenny Wormald
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Fun

• I'm just a red nigger who love the sea,I had a sound colonial education,I have Dutch, nigger, and English in me,and either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Education
  • English
  • Red

• Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation says "I." And in each case it seems to be taken for granted that this I belongs to the Whole, to the whole man, and that a thought, a desire, or an aversion is expressed by this Whole.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Desire
  • Taken
  • Mood

• I always try to approach things from the point of authenticity. I've done that for my short films, working with non-actors from the real environments where you go exploring and placing them into the cast alongside professional actors.

  

  Tom Green
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Environment