William Kittredge Quotes

A man ... needs to get out in the open air and sweat and blow off the stink.

William Kittredge

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• I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Believe
  • War
  • Death

• I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Think
  • Way
  • Part

• My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Father
  • Color
  • Filmmaker

• It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Job
  • Popular
  • Results

• I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Today
  • Democracy
  • Picture

• Part of any solution to get our economy going should include steps to free up our small businesses by peeling back unnecessarily burdensome regulations, ending the continual threats of tax hikes, and addressing the cloud of federal debt that hangs over our economy.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Free
  • Small

• Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Dance

• Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

  

  Tacitus
  • Die
  • Thought
  • Yourself

• I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Children
  • Trying

• I think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to be whole, you need to find part of yourself in another person - probably because of the fables we're told as kids.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • Women
  • Kids

• The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, these are just some of the people who threatened to sue if we used their songs.

  

  Colin Mochrie
  • People

• Prior to 2015, I had kind of approached every year like, 'Let's hope for the best.' I always made these year-end videos with 100 things I did, and it would kind of build itself up throughout the year. When this year started, it was like I knew the 100 things before I even got to do them.

  

  Tyler Oakley
  • Up
  • Hope

• I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.

  

  Aime Cesaire
  • Different

• In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.

  

  Jimmy Cliff
  • Life
  • Great
  • Family

• The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms.

  

  Arthur Capper
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• Children take in more information than we'd like to believe.

  

  Marya Hornbacher
  • Believe
  • Children

• When people write things on the Internet about me that aren't true, it's tough to deal with. Even if you're the most mellow person in the world, stuff like that bothers you eventually.

  

  Phillip Phillips
  • People
  • World
  • True

• The word of God is that unto our souls, which our soul is unto our body.

  

  John Jewel
  • God
  • Soul

• I did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • Children
  • City

• Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings—that is what has to be studied and can and should be changed. Mechanical thinking is not worth a penny. You can think about many things mechanically, but you will get nothing from it.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Thinking
  • Thoughts
  • Feelings

• You've got to do the big studio movies to get your name, but as an actor and for your own well-being you kind of need to step back from that occasionally and do the smaller films. In the end, that's what helps you learn and makes you a better actor.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • Needs
  • Actors
  • Names

• Once you really love a person and, if you want to be in a committed relationship the games need to stop. I mean, you can find some other games to play.

  

  Vivica A. Fox
  • Mean
  • Needs
  • Persons

• No substantial part of the universe is so simple that it can be grasped and controlled without abstraction. Abstraction consists in replacing the part of the universe under consideration by a model of similar but simpler structure. Models, formal and intellectual on the one hand, or material on the other, are thus a central necessity of scientific procedure.

  

  Arturo Rosenblueth
  • Universe
  • Abstraction

• A man ... needs to get out in the open air and sweat and blow off the stink.

  

  William Kittredge
  • Needs
  • Boat
  • Fishes