Renny Harlin Quotes

I feel like I learned very early on that your heroes are only as powerful as your villains. And I'm attracted to intelligent villains.

Renny Harlin

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• They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Song

• I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Help
  • Team
  • Style

• Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Law
  • Government
  • Need

• I am a just man.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Man

• On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Achieve
  • Anger
  • Apology

• I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Try

• All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Me
  • Serious
  • Just

• In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn't really have enough men around to fill all the jobs. So there was this sudden demand that women come back and perform a lot of the white-collar and pink-collar roles that men had done before or that hadn't existed before.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Men
  • Women
  • Done

• I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting history to young people in particular.

  

  Kate Williams
  • People
  • History
  • Amazing

• I think governments can't do much.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Think
  • Government
  • I Think

• Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Power
  • Man
  • Beware

• Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Moving
  • Direction
  • Turn

• We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Love
  • Fall
  • For Her

• In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Live
  • Family
  • Musicians

• When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • School
  • Play
  • Down

• Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Idea
  • Organization
  • Social

• I don't know whether it's audiences or filmmakers who want characters to be likable today, but I don't think actors are afraid of their characters being unlikable.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Today
  • Want
  • Know

• Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Action
  • Day
  • Fall

• Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.

  

  Martin Van Buren
  • Country
  • Powerful

• There is an instinct for realism, a powerful drive to reproduce oneself. The fascination of photorealistic paintings lies partly in their apparent replication of life, but these are not merely replications. These paintings are often out of life scale, varying from over life-size to under life-size, from brilliant, heightened color to pale, undertone hues.

  

  Audrey Flack
  • Powerful
  • Painting
  • Lying

• Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords as by contributing to the vast and powerful currents of conceptions and misconceptions that sweep human action along.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Society
  • Political
  • Action

• I feel like I learned very early on that your heroes are only as powerful as your villains. And I'm attracted to intelligent villains.

  

  Renny Harlin
  • Powerful
  • Intelligent
  • Villain