Rick Tumlinson Quotes

From John Kennedy to Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, presidents have rhetorically opened the door to the frontier for us, and each time, we have turned away to fight over destinations, technologies, and timing.

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• My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Think
  • You
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• I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Age
  • Purpose
  • Lucky

• Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.

  

  Lew Wasserman
  • Great
  • May
  • Control

• You are where you are in life because of what you believe is possible for yourself.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Believe
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• The Balkanization of the media means that nobody is having a single conversation with a single set of agreed-upon facts and assumptions the way you had as recently as the 90s.

  

  Barack Obama
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• When I read the documents relative to the Modernism, as it was defined by Saint Pius X, and when I compare them to the documents of the II Vatican Council, I cannot help being bewildered. For what was condemned as heresy in 1906 was proclaimed as what is and should be from now on the doctrine and method of the Church. In other words, the modernists of 1906 were, somewhat, precursors to me. My masters were part of them. My parents taught me Modernism. How could Saint Pius X reject those that now seem to be my precursors?

  

  Jean Guitton
  • Help
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  • Words

• Be fluid. Treat each project differently. Be water, man. The best style is no style. Because styles can be figured out. And when you have no style they can't figure you out.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Men
  • Fashion
  • Water

• The issue for me is American competitiveness, and how do we best create a climate here that allows international capital to come to these shores to create jobs.

  

  Vito Fossella
  • Jobs
  • Issues
  • Climate

• I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Extraordinary Things

• The one thing you can count on in Hollywood - across the board - is cowardice.

  

  Sean Penn
  • Hollywood
  • Count
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• We got a malaria initiative, really a phenomenal time, even though in the early stages there was some uncertainty. Then of course Barack Obama, although he had budget constraints, he believed in these things; a lot of new initiatives, including in agriculture.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Budget
  • Barack Obama
  • Malaria initiative

• A good hitter has timing. A good pitcher upsets timing.

  

  Warren Spahn
  • Upset
  • Timing
  • Hitter

• Appeal to all scholars of stupidity in the world. Come to Italy, this country has the highest rate of morons of the universe, especially among political, bureaucratic, judicial, religious, intellectual, artistic, and mass media members, so it is the best place to develop your own field research.

  

  William C. Brown
  • Country
  • Political
  • Religious

• You've got to pick your roles really carefully. It's a lot more fun to play a layered woman, than just someone where what you see is what you get, by far.

  

  Melissa George
  • Fun
  • Play
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• Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the sacred cows you wish to butcher.

  

  Gene Spafford
  • Questioning
  • Ridicule
  • Butcher

• From John Kennedy to Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, presidents have rhetorically opened the door to the frontier for us, and each time, we have turned away to fight over destinations, technologies, and timing.

  

  Rick Tumlinson
  • Timing
  • Presidents
  • George