Neil Portnow (Neil R. Portnow) Quotes

We live in a time of fake news - things that are made up and manufactured.

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• It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • True
  • Identity
  • Interests

• I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Small
  • Hate
  • Running

• In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.

  

  Wale
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Nothing

• It's pretty much run by everybody. We're very involved in everything that goes on. We always have been.

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
  • Pretty
  • Everything
  • Very

• The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Death
  • Political
  • Content

• If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Job

• Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Small
  • Breathing
  • Charm

• Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Beautiful
  • Beautiful Woman

• We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • motivation
  • Act
  • Talk

• A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Professional
  • Poet
  • Objects

• No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

  

  Tacitus
  • Never
  • Ability
  • Been

• I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Competitive

• What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Character
  • Happy
  • Man

• When we started the e-commerce, nobody believed that China would have e-commerce because people believed in 'guang-shi,' face-to-face, and all kinds of network in traditional ways. There's no trust system in China.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Trust
  • Nobody

• My problem in calling for pressures on South Africa is to convince the youth to convince their governments and people that it is not the South African goods that are cheap, but the forced labor of the Africans.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Problem
  • Youth

• There is so much art can do to enlighten people, no matter what their views might be. If art can't go there or doesn't elevate the social consciousness in some way, then we are in peril.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Art
  • Matter

• I did not realise that I was so loved. It can't just be for the films. I must have done something else, but I can't remember what.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Done
  • Remember
  • Loved

• We need the humbleness and clarity to see that our food, while benefitting from technological advances, has benefitted even more from free ecological resources: Cheap energy, lots of water everywhere, and a stable climate.

  

  Dan Barber
  • Free
  • Energy
  • Food

• When you write a script, you always think about what your heart is asking.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • Heart
  • Think
  • Always

• So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Children
  • Police
  • Gang

• If you, Like me, Were made of fur, And sun warmed you, Like me, You'd purr.

  

  Karla Kuskin
  • Like
  • Sun
  • Made

• We deliberately tried to collect just isolated fragments of their experience—particular images, sounds, and feelings—rather than the entire story, because that is how trauma is experienced.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Experience
  • Trauma
  • Fragments

• We live in a time of fake news - things that are made up and manufactured.

  

  Neil Portnow
  • Made
  • Fake
  • News