Bill Whittle Quotes

If it's ALL about me, it's NOT about MUCH!

Bill Whittle

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• Every person that's in the NBA should experience playing in New York at least once in their career.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Experience
  • Career
  • New York

• 'Twin Peaks' is the one thing in my career that I can really look back on, that I really respect and love and honor as something that's different. The one thing that I can hang onto.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Career
  • Respect
  • Honor

• When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Music
  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• You just don't see the same type of all-purpose entertainers nowadays.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • You
  • Purpose
  • Same

• I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • Culture
  • You

• My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Good
  • Idea
  • Suicide

• I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • Want
  • Things
  • Better

• I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Know
  • Me
  • Growth

• As a CEO of a large company, clearly we need policies in the U.S. government that are pro-business, because at the end of the day, we all work within the framework of a country's policies.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Work
  • Country
  • Business

• I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Die

• You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • You
  • Doing
  • Rent

• It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Christian
  • Forgiveness
  • Back

• In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Contentment

• Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Up
  • Men

• The die is set, and Malcolm shall not escape, especially after such evil foolish talk about his benefactor, Elijah Muhammad. Such a man as Malcolm is worthy of death.

  

  Louis Farrakhan
  • Death
  • Die
  • Evil

• It's tough sometimes for groups of people and animals to let go of that fear that can so easily bubble back up to the surface.

  

  Byron Howard
  • People
  • Up
  • Fear

• I'm proud of 'The Hidden.' I feel like we took a B-movie and kind of turned it into an A-minus action movie. We kind of elevated the material a little bit. It's got a great car-chase scene at the very beginning. It has some terrific moments in it, some funny stuff. It's a great rental.

  

  Kyle MacLachlan
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Funny

• I believe the gift of acting is a gift from God, my oath to God, and I want to make sure on a daily basis that it is honed and deeply spiritual... I want to believe that the audience believes that my acting comes from this special place.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • God
  • Believe
  • Spiritual

• Maybe I'll make one movie a year, maybe two, but it's not going to be more than that because I have other priorities now.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Movie

• One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library.

  

  Deb Caletti
  • Life
  • Library

• Video is universal and allows people around the world to communicate and exchange ideas.

  Chad Hurley
  • People
  • World

• People kind of have a misconception, because when someone calls me Theo and I correct them, say, 'No, my name is Malcolm,' they think I have an attitude about it and I don't want to be associated with the show.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • People
  • Attitude
  • Name

• Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.

  

  Archie Shepp
  • Music
  • Culture

• If it's ALL about me, it's NOT about MUCH!

  

  Bill Whittle