Cecil B. DeMille (Cecil Blount DeMille) Quotes

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.

Cecil B. DeMille

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• And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Important
  • Political
  • Balance

• My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • People
  • She
  • History

• The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Age
  • Ideas
  • Class

• Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Prayer
  • Weakness
  • Confession

• If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Fiction

• Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Like
  • Chocolate
  • Candy

• Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Money
  • Problem
  • Quality

• I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Live
  • Networking

• We have seen the damage already caused to the music industry and we have to continue to make the public and government bodies globally aware of the damage that will happen if DVD piracy is not brought under control.

  

  Callum McDougall
  • Music
  • Control
  • Government

• Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Believe
  • Never
  • Politics

• It's a lot easier to play in front of quite a lot of strangers than a couple of your friends just because when it's someone that really knows you, it's much more scary.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Friends
  • Play
  • Couple

• A dream my girlfriend and I have is to move to New York for a year or two because we just love the city. I would take some acting classes.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Dream
  • City
  • Girlfriend

• If your not cheering for me, for what I'm doing, don't cheer for me. Don't cheer cause you think I'm cute, you know what I'm saying, screw that. Cheer for me for what I'm doing, for what I stand for, and when I go to jail you should cheer louder.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Cute
  • Cheer

• I once knew a girl In the years of my youth With eyes like the summer All beauty and truth In the morning I fled Left a note and it read Someday you will be loved.

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • Truth
  • Girl
  • Eyes

• In talking about memory and our history, I think our humanity, especially in China, is cut. Cut, broken, separated. If we have a character from our history and memory, the character is broken, it’s shattered.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Character
  • History
  • Humanity

• A part is greater than the whole; By hints are mysteries told. The fringes of eternity, - God's sweeping garment-fold, In that bright shred of glittering sea, I reach out for and hold.

  

  Lucy Larcom
  • God
  • Sea

• We all have seven secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes; our terror of death; our experience of shame; the world of pain; and our dreams. No one ever knows these lives. Consciousness is solitary. Each person lives in that bubble universe that rests under the skull, alone.

  

  Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• When I'm on the court, I picture myself as like a gladiator.

  

  Tyson Chandler
  • Picture

• The more transparent you are about, you know, the not so happy times, or the happy times, or the things that you're embarrassed or ashamed of or proud of, it's all in Kicker, and all in my music. I'm just inspired by life in general and what it's bringing to me.

  

  Zella Day
  • Life
  • Music
  • Happy

• Would-be drug companies must either produce medicines that stand up to federal scrutiny, demonstrate that their data has value to other companies, or go out of business.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Up
  • Business
  • Value

• Once you start trying to sell creativity, you're always going to run into the problem that the people selling it aren't as creative as the people making it, and the people making it don't know how to talk business with the people trying to sell it.

  

  Dave Pirner
  • People
  • Trying
  • Business

• Misinterpretation leads me to inspiration and creativity because I think my brain is trying to figure out some information that I'm confused about.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Thinking
  • Brain
  • Inspiration

• I don't fear death because I believe it is a transition. Our souls can't be destroyed. I know we are going to live in another life.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Live

• Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.

  

  Cecil B. DeMille
  • Creativity
  • Drug