Hal Sparks Quotes

You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.

Hal Sparks

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• Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Movie
  • Trust

• When I do interviews, I never pre-plan them at all, radio or TV.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Never
  • Radio
  • Interviews

• It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.

  

  Callum Keith Rennie
  • Great
  • Funny
  • Actor

• I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Hero

• We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • World
  • Why
  • War

• Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Time
  • Art
  • Sense

• An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • You
  • Living
  • Playwright

• Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Women
  • High
  • Always

• A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • People
  • Children
  • Love

• If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Age
  • Aging
  • Disability

• I am proud to be a Sikh and am a true disciple of Guru Gobind Singh, who sacrificed his entire family for the Sikh religion.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Family
  • Proud
  • Religion

• Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.

  

  C. Robert Kehler
  • Important
  • Responsibility

• Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Path
  • Influence
  • Down

• I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Grateful
  • Ready
  • Lady

• There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • World
  • Challenge
  • Creating

• The second thing that happened is, DNA analysis is much more sophisticated. All you have to do now is spit in a test tube and you find out all kind of things in six weeks - where they are from in Africa or Europe. You can prove or disprove the fundamental African-American myth that you descended from a Cherokee great, great grandmother.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Kind
  • Grandmother
  • Week

• If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless. How different would yours have been, had the chance of birth placed you in Tartary or India!

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Different
  • Religious

• Sheriff Bart: Where the white women at?

  

  Mel Brooks
  • Women

• I've been really fortunate that my concert career has taken off hugely. I can make a living. I enjoy performing in front of a live audience, and I can do something different every time. Sometimes I'm with a quartet, sometimes I'm solo, sometimes with a symphony, and I get to go to different cities and meet different people.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• When I first walked in to London, I was so overwhelmed by the village, the sheer volume of people. I was just so excited. You don't know what to expect. So the level of excitement was almost draining, just taking everything in. I was so exhausted after I swam because of all the excitement in the build-up.

  

  Aimee Willmott
  • People
  • Up

• You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe