Ambeth R. Ocampo Quotes

School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

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• One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • You
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• Y'know what? This is what I go by: It doesn't matter how good-looking a guy is, it just depends on his personality. If a guy can make you laugh and make fun of you, then that's what would win me over. So, yeah.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Guy

• The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Control

• I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Me
  • Face
  • Camera

• My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Good
  • Father
  • Like

• 'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Science
  • Wrong
  • Documentary

• We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • God
  • Why
  • Him

• I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • Way
  • Emotional

• You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word for obsession.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Book
  • Kind
  • Imagination

• If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • You
  • Well
  • Bath

• America's got amazing presentation, especially New York - the most potent, strongest, concentrated, amazing presentation.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • America
  • Amazing
  • New York

• I think my body went through a lot, went through the wringer. In terms of being inside the ring, getting hit, but also outside the ring, living a crazy life.

  

  Oscar De La Hoya
  • Life
  • Crazy
  • Body

• In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.

  

  Ovid
  • People
  • Kind
  • Leisure

• I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Good
  • School
  • Parents

• I never did anything dishonest.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Never
  • Anything
  • Dishonest

• Lewis Black taught me stand-up.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • Black
  • Me
  • Stand

• My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor, and if fame follows suit, that's fine.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Job
  • Actor
  • Fame

• What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • May
  • Change
  • Start

• Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings, truth from appearances. And indeed the use and benefit of this touchstone, which is natural reason, is spoiled and lost only by assuming prejudices, overweening presumption, and narrowing our minds.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Prejudices
  • Appearances
  • Touchstone

• Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures in the tranquil cruelty of angling. I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery I practise toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Enjoy
  • Summer
  • Pleasure

• Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us.

  

  Charles A. Reich
  • Forever
  • Pleasure
  • Enjoyed

• School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.

  

  Ambeth R. Ocampo
  • Pleasure
  • Read
  • Illiterate