Lana Wachowski Quotes

I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.

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• I believe politicians should always remain realistic.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Believe
  • Always
  • I Believe

• FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Time
  • Business
  • Future

• Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Time
  • Better
  • Human

• I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Time
  • Good
  • America

• You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Time
  • You
  • Same

• This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Know

• The first time you win, nobody picks you; the last time you win, nobody picks you. You've just got to pick yourself.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Time
  • Yourself
  • Win

• I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Time
  • World
  • Pretty

• In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five years becoming the main character. I do that so by the time you get to the bottom of Page 2 or 3, you forget your name, where you live, your profession and the year it is. You become the main character of the book. You live the book.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Time
  • Live
  • Character

• Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Always
  • Car
  • Humble

• There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Kind
  • Growth
  • Something

• You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Time
  • Writing
  • May

• I've always loved Def Leppard, ever since I was little.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Always
  • Loved
  • Since

• Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for budding writers as an M.F.A. is now. To be sent away was a badge of honor; to undergo electroshock, a glorious martyrdom.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Time
  • Funny
  • Honor

• I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Always
  • Blues
  • Liked

• Anthony Johnson hits harder than any other person, no doubt. Every time he hit me, it made me kind of, like, fly all over the place. He was trying to take my head off.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Doubt

• I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Think

• I spent a lot of time lifting my drums into a van, playing to ten people night after night. I can't complain about anything now. That stuff was heavy.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • People
  • Time
  • Night

• Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought - sometimes it isn't much, either.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• To know a people's character, we must see it at its homes, and look chiefly to the humbler abodes where that portion of the people dwells which makes the broad basis of the national prosperity.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • People
  • Character
  • Prosperity

• Kyoya: I don't like this food. But do you think I'd be so inhuman as to complain after you treated me? That's a rude assumption.

  

  Bisco Hatori
  • Food
  • Assumption
  • Treated

• If someone tells you that George Bush is not the 43rd president of the United States, they might be engaged in wishful thinking, or denial, but if they make that claim, it's either true or false! And you can assess that, regardless of whether there's an omniscient narrator, or an unreliable narrator, or it's shot in vérité, or it's manipulated, it's agitprop, whatever! It makes no difference! It's a style!

  

  Errol Morris
  • Thinking
  • Regardless
  • Narrator

• I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Time
  • Always
  • Something