Ramin Djawadi Quotes

With 'Westworld,' the player piano plays a very important role.

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• My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina strikes, and then the conversation only lasts as long as the news cycle. His family squatted in shacks. The children scavenged for food.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Long
  • Children

• I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Movie
  • Building
  • Looking

• Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Want
  • Death
  • Point

• I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.

  

  Kate Jackson
  • Day
  • Dark
  • Doing

• I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Understanding
  • Wonderful

• I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of.

  

  Gary Cole
  • First
  • Nervous
  • Coming

• Vince Vaughn is a genuine person, awesome guy. He'll come to a lot of my shows. It's not that often that you can meet someone as cool as Vince.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Guy
  • Cool
  • Awesome

• You're defined by your older brothers' or sisters' music.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Music
  • You
  • Brothers

• Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Long
  • She
  • Man

• As one of our colleagues recently put it, this Republican pledge of no new taxes is pure Bushlips. It's Bushlips when the president says 'No new taxes' and sends a budget requiring the Finance Committee to raise $20 billion in new revenues: $15 billion in taxes and $5 billion in user fees.

  

  Lloyd Bentsen

• As a radio DJ, I was on WRIN-WLQI. And even when I repeat it, it's horrifying. My morning sign-on, because it was in Rensselaer, Indiana, it'd be, 'You're on the air with Jim O'Heir in Rensselaer.' Ugh, oh my God, pathetic.

  

  Jim O'Heir
  • God
  • Morning
  • Air

• Most of my inspiration comes from mistakes, so every time I make a massive mistake, that usually affects me so much that I have to process that via song.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • Song
  • Mistake
  • Inspiration

• Bread pudding makes me weak. I have been known to be moved to tears by cookies and ice cream, and ribs are a spiritual experience for me.

  

  Bill Rancic
  • Experience
  • Spiritual
  • Tears

• AARP knows the future is bright for a generation that's going to remain healthy and vital for 10, 20, 30, 40 more years. AARP has the information and resources people need throughout their process of reinvention.

  

  Jane Pauley
  • People
  • Future

• I've never been a person that has had fear of, like, 'Oh, I don't want to be the poster child for all black lesbian women.' I don't know. I want to be someone in the public eye that they can be proud of.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Women
  • Black
  • Fear

• Being a New Yorker and someone that goes to MoMA as a patron, I want it to be good.

  

  Elizabeth Diller
  • Good

• You do only live once, and I feel like if I'm able to make a difference on this planet and leave it just a little better than I found it, then I've done my job.

  

  Bindi Irwin
  • Live
  • Done
  • Job

• But, you know, sometimes - many - they all understand. That's the nice thing. They were all very happy for me and they understand why I decided to come to CNN. So in that respect, I know that they think it's the best thing for me to do.

  

  Connie Chung
  • Why
  • Happy
  • Respect

• The difficult part for us is adding features without making the product more complicated.

  

  Jan Koum

• People are so ready to cut you down if you take a risk and leave your comfort zone.

  

  Annabelle Wallis
  • People
  • Risk

• I love acting - I love doing it. It's a lot of fun, but for the longest time, I wanted to become a firefighter. I still do want to become a firefighter.

  

  Ryan Potter
  • Fun
  • Acting
  • Become

• And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good.

  

  Ben Nighthorse Campbell
  • Good
  • Important
  • Death

• With 'Westworld,' the player piano plays a very important role.

  

  Ramin Djawadi
  • Important