Bill Oberst Jr. Quotes

Lincoln is me. He is America. He is what makes us a great nation and a dangerous nation, all wrapped up in one man.

Bill Oberst Jr.

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• In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Me
  • Superstar

• San Francisco, coolest place ever.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Place
  • Ever
  • San Francisco

• I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • High
  • Fly
  • Feet

• I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Wish
  • Same
  • Old

• I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Always
  • Fight
  • See

• Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Children
  • You
  • Talk

• So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Earth
  • Just
  • saw

• When I am not working, I am home. I love spending time at my house.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Time
  • Love
  • Home

• But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Good
  • Great
  • Interesting

• I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Game
  • Change
  • Hurt

• I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Way
  • Never
  • Strange

• I was always taught that Latin, Caribbean people were cousins to me, as well as blues was a cousin to me, as well as Africans were direct relatives to me. It was all a part of my language.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Me
  • Latin

• The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Blessing
  • Modern
  • Greatest

• If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Women
  • Going
  • Election

• Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.

  

  Ralph Macchio
  • Today
  • Story
  • Information

• Negative politics have always been around.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Always
  • Politics
  • Negative

• I like the feeling of not knowing where to look when you are only performing for one person or watching someone practice. It creates this kind of a strange in-between, which can be mirrored in the feeling of making a painting.

  

  Dana Schutz
  • Feeling
  • Practice
  • Painting

• You ever go eat breakfast at Denny's, and then go to the toilet and sit in there so long you gotta order lunch from the stool? You ever do that? Now I know why they call it the Grand Slam?

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Long
  • Why
  • Breakfast

• One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Free
  • Responsibility

• I used my captors' names every chance I had. It was intentional, a way of reminding them that I saw them, of pegging them, of making them see me in return.

  

  Amanda Lindhout

• You grow up in America and you're told from day one, 'This is the land of opportunity.' That everybody has an equal chance to make it in this country. And then you look at places like Harlem, and you say, 'That is absolutely a lie.'

  

  Geoffrey Canada
  • Up
  • Country
  • America

• I always say to anybody who's going over to America for the first time, 'Whatever you do, go and see a popular mainstream film with a big audience.' Because people shout out. You never get that in Britain. Everybody's so quiet, scared to laugh. It's like being in church.

  

  Danny Boyle
  • People
  • Time
  • America

• The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.

  

  Anita Loos
  • Life
  • American
  • America

• Lincoln is me. He is America. He is what makes us a great nation and a dangerous nation, all wrapped up in one man.

  

  Bill Oberst Jr.
  • America
  • Dangerous
  • Nations