Warwick Thornton Quotes

I was looking for an opportunity to make my first feature, so I asked myself: "What do you want to do? Is there something you can give to the world?"

Warwick Thornton

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• Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Faith
  • Being
  • Without

• In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Democracy
  • Never
  • Criticism

• My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Bad
  • Son
  • Boy

• The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.

  

  Walter Matthau
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • You

• I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • School
  • Power
  • Sun

• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Evil

• A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Country
  • Man
  • WIld

• I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Football
  • Moment
  • Racism

• I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Children
  • Grandchildren

• Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.

  

  Major Owens
  • School
  • Together
  • Education

• I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Woman
  • Same
  • Married

• For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Up
  • She
  • Man

• The thing about Uggs is that they're so comfortable. Once you've worn them, you don't want to go back.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Want
  • You
  • Comfortable

• China is trying to become America without democracy while America is trying to become France without cheese calories.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Trying
  • America
  • Democracy

• I'm the sort of person who takes a camera to dinner or a nightclub because I enjoy taking pictures of people. I tweet all my pictures, which is bad.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • People
  • Bad
  • Enjoy

• Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Light

• I'm not even really attempting to brand myself outside of 'Humans of New York.' I think part of the reason for my success is that I've put my ego aside and said I'm not going to put all of my effort into trying to promote myself. I'm going to try to promote my work and am going to try to promote my project.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Success

• The industrial age was not about craftspeople trading peer to peer. It was about stopping that. You weren't supposed to be a craftsperson, you were supposed to be an employee.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Age

• It's always been a dream of mine to be an Olympian.

  

  Becky Sauerbrunn
  • Dream

• I think there's nothing better in the world than a spirited discussion about the Bible and Jesus and God and the Catholic faith, or the Jewish faith, or the Muslim faith - any religion.

  

  Elizabeth Vargas
  • World
  • God
  • Faith

• He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • World
  • Friends
  • Hate

• If we don't build a company as influential as Google or Facebook, then we failed. I'm, like, perpetually stressed, honestly.

  

  Arash Ferdowsi

• There is a beginning and end to all life - and to all human endeavors. Species evolve and die off. Empires rise, then break apart. Businesses grow, then fold. There are no exceptions. I'm OK with all that. Yet it pains me to bear witness to the sixth great extinction, where we humans are directly responsible for the extirpation of so many wonderful creatures and invaluable indigenous cultures. It saddens me to observe the plight of our own species; we appear to be incapable of solving our problems.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Life
  • Great
  • Die

• I was looking for an opportunity to make my first feature, so I asked myself: "What do you want to do? Is there something you can give to the world?"

  

  Warwick Thornton
  • World
  • Giving
  • Opportunity