Rhys Darby Quotes

I'm quite a good reader of people; I like to meet people, and I can tell if they're lying or not.

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• I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Like
  • Serious
  • Intelligent

• Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Writing
  • Fear
  • Singing

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Happiness
  • Child
  • Maturity

• When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • World
  • High

• I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Rock
  • Jesus
  • Roll

• I made nothing happen very slowly.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Nothing
  • Very
  • Happen

• I try to make my fans happy by working hard in every film of mine, and I give my films everything I've got.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Happy
  • Film
  • Working Hard

• You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

  

  Ed Harris
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Often

• I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.

  

  B. B. King
  • Different
  • Love
  • Like

• Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Teaching
  • Distraction

• But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • Rest

• I probably spend the most time with Toews: we have the same schedule, and we're roomies on the road; we sit next to each other. We do a lot of promotions together.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Together
  • Road

• I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become.

  

  Urs Fischer
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Better

• I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Me
  • Attention
  • Never

• I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hand
  • Like
  • Thoughts

• Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.

  

  Paracelsus

• 'I am of no faith,' said Aenea. 'If one defines faith as belief in the supernatural.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Faith
  • Supernatural

• Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or painting, have here interchanged the senses by which they penetrate to the intellect.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • May
  • Poetry
  • Painting

• I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Artists
  • Stupidity
  • Affirmative

• I, more than anything, obviously the presidency is the people, and it's been interesting the emotions in the last few months. What you realize is that you may never have the team that is together in the same way, under the same pressures, and the attachments that you make to folks from your chief of staff down to.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • May
  • Together

• It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

  

  Moliere
  • Doing
  • Responsible

• I'm quite a good reader of people; I like to meet people, and I can tell if they're lying or not.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • People
  • Lying
  • Reader