Richard Linklater Quotes

I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

Richard Linklater

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• Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Know
  • Funny
  • Talking

• I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Trying
  • Thoughts
  • Enjoy

• Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Approach
  • Suit
  • Low-Key

• I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Idea

• Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Free
  • Justice
  • Trade

• I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Ballet
  • Dancer
  • Fosse

• A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Time
  • Love

• Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Time
  • Today
  • Beautiful

• I just want to do my best, to be as close to the top as I can, and to get the maximum out of the car.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • Want
  • Best
  • Car

• In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue – I want anything that will spare me having to carry around reams of paper.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • Life
  • Want
  • Issue

• I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.

  

  Dagmara Dominczyk
  • Always
  • Eye
  • Period

• There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That's the kind of game we have to play here and it will be very difficult to beat us.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • Important
  • Think
  • Game

• Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Now

• The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Being
  • More
  • Minute

• At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a professional aviator and certainly not in the military.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Up
  • Military
  • End

• I cannot believe I became some kind of hero. I'm just a common Korean woman.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Believe
  • Woman
  • Hero

• I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Dance

• What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • People
  • Believe
  • Together

• A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man's position is to protect her, help her up stairs, make sure she's in the car safely first. Take good care of your woman, and the sky's the limit!

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Up
  • Good
  • She

• I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • True
  • Being
  • Often

• I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Hate
  • Like
  • Afraid

• I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Write
  • Block
  • Educate

• I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

  

  Richard Linklater
  • Being
  • Lied