Christopher Doyle Quotes

It's very subjective, ... Who's to say what is an appropriate level of investment without knowing that manager's risk and time horizon?

Christopher Doyle

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• Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Women
  • School
  • Law

• Excellence always sells.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Always
  • Excellence
  • Sells

• Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Diva

• Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Job
  • Director
  • Elements

• There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.

  

  Barry Took
  • People
  • Old
  • Really

• What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Life
  • Success

• Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Freedom
  • Effort

• I think it's highly likely that we'll continue to have high-performance graphics capability in living rooms. I'm not sure we're all going to put down our game controllers and pick up touch screens - which is a reasonable view, I'm just not sure I buy into it.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Up
  • High
  • Think

• I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
  • Home
  • Me

• Music has always been around with me.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Music
  • Me
  • Always

• The nature of this melancholy becomes clearer, once one asks the question, with whom does the historical writer of historicism actually empathize. The answer is irrefutably with the victor. Those who currently rule are however the heirs of all those who have ever been victorious. Empathy with the victors thus comes to benefit the current rulers every time.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Question

• My heart is warm with friends I make,  And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,  No matter where it's going.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Heart
  • Friends

• Carol James, who is my physician's assistant and my right-hand person, frequently teases me by saying, 'It's because women need only half of their brain to think as well as men. That's why you can do this operation on so many women.'

  

  Ben Carson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• For no good reason, George W. Bush and the best and brightest he could muster, including the likes of Paul Bremer and Paul Wolfowitz, decided it made sense to attack Iraq.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Good

• Basketball is basketball, but with each level, there's new challenges and new things you have to pick up.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Up
  • Basketball

• I'm physically completely mal-coordinated. My best friend used to make me run for the bus just to give herself a quick, cheap laugh because I definitely don't have that sophisticated cool thing down.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Friend
  • Cool

• I do not see the process of blogging as a separate thing from creating art. This is in part why I do not like to be known for being a 'blogger,' as this is just one form of output for creative ideas.

  

  Keri Smith
  • Art
  • Why

• When you try to do something ten per cent better, you tend to work from where you are: if I ask you to make a car that goes 50 miles a gallon, you can just retool the engine you already have.

  

  Astro Teller
  • Work
  • Car

• When I first started experimenting with harmonics, I'd sometimes hook up two distortion boxes just to get my strings 'frying,' which helped bring out the harmonics.

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott
  • Up

• It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Animal
  • More
  • Really

• A preoccupation with money and, especially, with what money meant was, in our family, an inherited thing. My father's father, Jack, who died before I was born, was very much possessed by the idea that money was freedom.

  

  John Lanchester
  • Family
  • Money
  • Father

• Women will risk their lives to protect children, but rarely risk their lives to protect an adult man.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Children
  • Risk

• The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Risk

• It's very subjective, ... Who's to say what is an appropriate level of investment without knowing that manager's risk and time horizon?

  

  Christopher Doyle
  • Risk
  • Knowing
  • Investments