Otto Preminger Quotes

I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.

Otto Preminger

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• I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Writing
  • Future
  • Past

• If I can't drive my old pickup to wherever I'm going, well, chances are good that I just won't go.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Good
  • Old
  • Drive

• My go-to jeans are old Levi's I've gotten from boyfriends; they're worn-in and really yummy and perfect.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Perfect
  • Old
  • Jeans

• If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Look

• Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Football
  • Doing
  • Look

• I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Past
  • Wish
  • I Wish

• 'Make You Miss Me' is an important song to me. Having it go No. 1 as the fifth single off of my first record is the cherry on top of a chapter in my life I'll never forget.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Life
  • Important
  • Song

• The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Past
  • Universe
  • Understand

• Yes, I mean, I used to be into the big bulk thing, and that's why my legs look like those of a cyclist instead of a shooter's, but I think there is a point to where too much is not a good thing. I think I try to lower my center of gravity by doing a lot of legs.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Good
  • Why
  • Think

• It's too bad I'm not a flirt. When I'm on the sets, I'm too busy working on my scenes to look at the ladies.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Bad
  • Look
  • Busy

• Epic were adamant that I should carry on being me. They liked the way I look, my clothes, hats... nothing's changed really.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Me
  • Look
  • Clothes

• I did not even look at the scoreboard when my routine was done in 1976.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Done
  • Look
  • Routine

• The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Music
  • Night

• I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Past
  • Like
  • Losers

• I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Business
  • Look
  • Idiot

• I'm really obsessed with the past.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Past
  • Really
  • Obsessed

• For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Myself
  • Look
  • Mask

• There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Science
  • Light
  • Single

• As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • World
  • Money
  • Character

• I definitely know people who are shameless enough to give up basic values. I see this kind of art, and when I see it I feel ashamed. In China they treat art as some form of decoration, a self-indulgence. It is pretending to be art. It looks like art. It sells like art. But it is really a piece of shit.'

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Up
  • Art

• The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Live
  • Environment
  • Exercise

• America faces a mounting transportation crisis, and the primary culprit is road congestion. Traffic makes us unhealthy, wastes enormous amounts of time, and cripples national productivity. America needs expanded roads and transportation infrastructure, but traditional gas tax funding is no longer available.

  

  Joe Lonsdale
  • Time
  • America
  • Road

• I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • Past
  • Single
  • Look