William Schreyer Quotes

The fact of the matter is that I've enjoyed the competition in life and the business of life; I've enjoyed all that goes with it.

William Schreyer

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• Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Success
  • Film

• I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Kind
  • Street

• The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Time
  • Law
  • Agenda

• It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Long
  • Live
  • Happily

• You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Good
  • Men

• I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Wrong
  • Choosing

• Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Qualities

• Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Future
  • Dream

• Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • You
  • Lie
  • Others

• We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • People
  • Poor
  • Poor People

• I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • American
  • Game

• You fall for who the chemistry is with.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • You
  • Fall
  • Chemistry

• I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Music
  • Love
  • Rock

• Children should always be brave and do something about bullying. It's not okay to stand by and let it happen. Bullies thrive off secrecy. Children should tell someone if they see someone being bullied.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Children
  • Brave
  • Bullying

• My real name is Joe Kennedy, but if you live in Massachusetts, you can't sign 'Joe Kennedy.' So, back in 1957, I stuck the X on my name to be different from those people in Hyannis Port.

  

  X. J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Trying
  • Bad
  • Ideas

• Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Power
  • Black
  • Same

• Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out now that need a lot more editing. Fantasy got to be so popular that people began to think 'We don't need to be as diligent with the razor blade,' but they do.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • People
  • Problem
  • Popular

• For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.

  

  Sophocles
  • God
  • Nation
  • Arrogance

• I love the shape of '50s fashion: the clothes are very flattering; they let you out in the right places. I love high heels, too, as I'm only five foot three, although I always tell people I'm five foot five.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Love
  • High

• My literary heroes were mostly women writers and thinkers - Joy Williams, Joan Didion, Anne Sexton, June Jordan, Sarah Schulman, Audre Lorde, Cherrie Moraga, Christa Wolf - and much of this writing was political as well as literary.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Political

• As a filmmaker, the only way that I understand how to make a film is holistically.

  

  Duncan Jones

• Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

  

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Politics

• The fact of the matter is that I've enjoyed the competition in life and the business of life; I've enjoyed all that goes with it.

  

  William Schreyer
  • Matter
  • Competition
  • Facts