Jack Valenti Quotes

I don’t care if you call it AO for Adults Only, or Chopped Liver or Father Goose. Your movie will still have the stigma of being in a category that’s going to be inhabited by the very worst of pictures.

Jack Valenti

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• I always played to win.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Always
  • Win
  • Played

• Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Important
  • Woman
  • Dress

• If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Want
  • Golf
  • Aging

• The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Real
  • Church
  • British

• I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Citizen

• There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Eyes

• Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Me
  • Said
  • Now

• I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Food
  • Appreciate
  • Evolution

• The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • World
  • Future
  • Leadership

• A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Goals
  • Soccer
  • Meant To Be

• It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Life
  • Motto
  • Be Yourself

• I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Men
  • Space
  • Comfort

• All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Music
  • Words
  • inspirational

• We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Trying
  • Blame
  • Skinniness

• I don't think a reggaeton song will break again like 'Gasolina' did.

  

  Maluma
  • Think
  • Song
  • Break

• KWMR is my radio station, and I intend to have a job there as I get older. That's what I'm lobbying for. They don't need me. They've got plenty of people. But let's see if I can make myself indispensable.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Job
  • Myself

• The demographic of young people... in each hand is a phone, more powerful than a computer. It's a doorway to the digital nation, to education.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • People
  • Education
  • Hand

• I love so much what I do that I spend so much time thinking about it, and then I go home, and then I'm thinking about it, so it's nice sometimes when a movie is over, and then the niggling feelings about whether you've did it right or not start to ebb away.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Home

• Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.

  

  Piers Anthony
  • Good
  • Different
  • Done

• I see myself maybe being, like, a movie producer or screenwriter or a novelist or a scientist or mathematician.

  

  Jazz Jennings
  • Movie

• I am never going to be able to rest easy in having established a posthumous connection to my father. I'll always be groping for what I can't have.

  

  George Packer
  • Father
  • Rest
  • Connection

• What props up biological research, at least in the vaunted U.S. of A., involves a situation so deeply imbued with entitlement mentality that it has sunk into institutional corruption.

  

  Jeffrey C. Hall
  • Up

• I don’t care if you call it AO for Adults Only, or Chopped Liver or Father Goose. Your movie will still have the stigma of being in a category that’s going to be inhabited by the very worst of pictures.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Movie
  • Father