Bill Lear Quotes

Strive for simplicity. You never have to fix what you leave out.

Bill Lear

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• One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • People
  • Great
  • Question

• Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Business
  • Learning
  • Best

• As a longtime former resident of 15 years in Washington, I wish that everybody would stay off the Mall with their political cause so that we can get out there, you know, and play flag football or Frisbee, or walk the dog or something - you know, which is, you know, what the National Mall should be for, in my personal opinion.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Wish
  • Football

• For the strikers, we have more freedom, and even when we lose the ball, if we press together, we can get it back, and it is good system for Chelsea.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Together
  • Freedom

• I look for absurdly simple plots so that I can simply focus on the characters. Having an understanding of what dialogue's easy to say and hard to say - I think that that's helpful, too.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Simple
  • Focus
  • Understanding

• I'm a girl from Queens. I've never gone, 'What am I doing today? Oh, I'm gonna grab a gun and learn how to use it.'

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Today
  • Girl
  • Gun

• Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Money
  • Art
  • Making Money

• You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I try to live a really normal life. I definitely don't try to make it into any more craziness than it is.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Life
  • Live
  • Job

• It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Rock
  • Look
  • Hunter

• Commit yourself to an organization or cause that genuinely fires you up.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Up
  • You
  • Yourself

• I was about to say, 'Avoid fame like the plague,' but you know, they can cure the plague with penicillin these days.

  

  Larry Wall

• Man’s craving for the supernatural is as natural as our discounting of the present moment... The natural becomes trite and commonplace to us and we take refuge in an imaginary world above and beyond it.

  

  John Burroughs
  • World
  • Present
  • Supernatural

• Comedic actors can be looked at as a lower form because we have to put ourselves in a lower place than most of the audience. I think lofty emotions are somehow considered more special. The best stories in the world to me are the ones that elicit a real emotion, but have humour.

  

  Jim Carrey
  • World
  • Real

• I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.

  

  Chris Evans
  • America
  • Fear

• I think it's kind of difficult to write a good Christmas song because you have a narrow framework of references that you have to work within, and at the same time you want to do something that's personally original and hopefully somewhat unique.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.

  

  Elaine Stritch
  • Inspired

• I do honestly believe that, in the 21st century, sport is the most significant cultural element in this imperfect world. It calls for serious attention.

  

  Frank Deford
  • World
  • Believe
  • Attention

• I'm one of those people who fiercely guards their privacy, so I hate doing interviews.

  

  Megan Fox
  • People
  • Hate

• Makeup is cool. I mean, you can turn up and feel really good and treat yourself, but it shouldn't be something you hang on to to validate your beauty or something you have to do to make you feel beautiful.

  

  Letitia Wright
  • Up
  • Good
  • Beautiful

• Despite erasure by the media and other patriarchal institutions, there was, by 1975, a substantial body of feminist writings as well as artwork, music, films, and organization of all kinds.

  

  Mary Daly
  • Music
  • Organization
  • Feminist

• We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • World
  • Done
  • Power

• If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would surely go mad, or succumb to a numbing sense of futility. Why, he might ask himself, should he bother to write a great symphony, or strive to make a living, or even to love another, when he is no more than a momentary microbe on a dust mote whirling through the unimaginable immensity of space?

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Strive
  • Bother
  • Cosmos

• People who are friends with me and who know me, know a side of me that is totally not cold.

  

  Bernhard Langer
  • People
  • Friends
  • Cold

• Strive for simplicity. You never have to fix what you leave out.

  

  Bill Lear
  • Simplicity
  • Strive
  • Fix