Rian Johnson Quotes

I'm a sci-fi fan, and I guess you have to let go of some of that at some point, and realize that as long as you're focused on telling a story that you care about, at the end of the day, that's what really matters, even to hard-core sci-fi fans.

Rian Johnson

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• When it comes to women, there has been a tendency to define women in sports in the context of their relationships - they watch games because their husbands watch. They're interested because their kids play a sport. They buy tickets to a sporting event because it's a way to spend time with family.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Time
  • Women
  • Family

• My characters are not plastic.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Characters
  • Plastic

• I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Men
  • Small
  • Faith

• You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I'm dancing now for 30 more years.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Fun
  • Risk
  • Skiing

• It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Speak

• I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Time
  • Know
  • Me

• Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm.

  

  Diana Ross
  • People
  • Up
  • Business

• One world on its own is a strange enough seethe of coiling, unknowable veins of intention and chance, but two? Where two worlds mingle breath through rips in the sky, the strange becomes stranger, and many things may come to pass that few imaginations could encompass.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • World
  • May
  • Sky

• You are my girlfriend," whispered Matthew. " You're my girl and I'm your guy, and you're my girl and I'm your guy. Let's not fight." -pg 126

  

  E. Lockhart
  • Guy
  • Girl
  • Girlfriend

• I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Stop

• Revolt is the violence of an entire people; rebellion the unruliness of an individual or an uprising by a minority; both are spontaneous and blind. Revolution is both planned and spontaneous, a science and an art.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • People
  • Art
  • Science

• Whether we like it or not, we have all been born into this world as part of one great human family. Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, belonging to one nation or another, to one religion or another, adhering to this ideology or that, ultimately each of is just a human being like everyone else. We all desire happiness and do not want suffering.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Great
  • Family

• Donald Trump never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Here's an issue where his concern is this line with public opinion, but the way he deals with it is actually puts him in a super minority in terms of people who are able to somehow bring himself to support his language and demeanor.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Support

• Everyone gets lucky once in a while, but no one is consistently lucky.

  

  Doyle Brunson
  • Luck
  • Once
  • Consistently

• This decree is very serious and we will not allow it to pass unopposed. (on Israel offers 10-month West Bank settlement freeze)

  

  Uri Orbach
  • Serious
  • Israel
  • Months

• You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
  • Game

• No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom.

  

  Harry Houdini
  • Freedom
  • Prison
  • Chains

• The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Free
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• People always tell me how lucky I am that my kids are adventurous eaters, but I don't believe that it's luck at all. By my involving them in the process, not only are they more likely to try something new, but also I can count on them to make better choices when I'm not around.

  

  Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • People
  • Believe
  • Kids

• With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.

  

  Steven Pinker
  • Problem
  • Solution
  • Human Nature

• I'm a sci-fi fan, and I guess you have to let go of some of that at some point, and realize that as long as you're focused on telling a story that you care about, at the end of the day, that's what really matters, even to hard-core sci-fi fans.

  

  Rian Johnson
  • Stories
  • Realizing
  • Focused