Nick Thune Quotes

Wouldn't the world be a cleaner place if we gave blind people brooms instead of canes?

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• But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.

  

  Randy Newman
  • People
  • Want
  • Understand

• Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Good
  • Job
  • Guy

• The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• I must stick with Chinese language films.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Language
  • Chinese
  • Stick

• The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Value
  • Beauty

• Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Prison
  • Directors
  • Guard

• The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Up
  • Game

• I'm the sort of person who takes a camera to dinner or a nightclub because I enjoy taking pictures of people. I tweet all my pictures, which is bad.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • People
  • Bad
  • Enjoy

• Part of our evolutionary heritage is the ability to adapt - species that survive, adapt. Humans adapt by altering their priorities to match evolving values.

  

  Warren Farrell

• Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

  

  Edward Gibbon
  • Gratitude
  • Revenge

• You can ask anybody in the room. My numbers are the worst in here but I'm still a jerk to everybody, yelling at everybody, getting them going. Once I get it back, then I'll be even worse to the guys.

  

  Billy Koch

• The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.

  

  James Cameron
  • People

• I'm a girl, so I didn't really know about 'G.I. Joe' as a kid. I didn't watch the show.

  

  Elodie Yung
  • Girl

• It annoys me when people can't differentiate between the character and the actor, which is a little bit silly.

  

  Alfie Allen
  • People
  • Character
  • Silly

• Bottom line, I have nothing but respect for Peyton Manning... He was always a great teammate to me; he's still a great friend to this day.

  

  Brock Osweiler
  • Great
  • Respect
  • Friend

• I am going into the adult market because they don't care what label you are signed to or who you know.

  

  Luther Campbell

• Test audiences are notorious for getting kind of itchy when people talk too much, and you have to trust your instincts that they don't necessarily understand that you're not digesting the movie on a scene-by-scene basis.

  

  Marti Noxon
  • People
  • Movie
  • Trust

• I'm my worst critic, and I like the fact that I can listen to myself now and make fun of myself, listen, make changes - 'Oh, man, that's messed up. Okay, I need to work on that; I need to work on this.'

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • Up
  • Work
  • Fun

• When I quit working, I lost all sense of identity in about fifteen minutes.

  

  Paige Rense
  • Lost
  • Identity

• Sarcasm all around the world is always against right wing and against people in power. That's the definition of political sarcasm.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • World
  • Power

• If a FIFA World Cup tournament had been held every year between 1982 and 1986, France would have won two or three.

  

  Michel Platini
  • World
  • Cups
  • Tournaments

• See all women as mothers, serve them as your mother. When you see the entire world as the mother, the ego falls away.

  

  Neem Karoli Baba
  • World
  • Mother
  • Ego

• Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

  

  David Ben-Gurion
  • Fear
  • Knowledge
  • Courage

• Wouldn't the world be a cleaner place if we gave blind people brooms instead of canes?

  

  Nick Thune
  • World
  • Cleaner
  • Brooms