Ted Demme Quotes
You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some direct route back to Jonathan. But I love him to death. He's like my best friend and my big brother.
Quotes to Explore
-
I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
-
The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
-
One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
-
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
-
The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
-
I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
-
I always wanted pink hair.
-
Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
-
I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
-
The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
-
A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
-
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
-
Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
-
I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
-
I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
-
An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
-
There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
-
Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
-
I've always helped polo to grow.
-
The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.
-
Come let us be friends for once. Let us make life easy on us. Let us be loved ones and lovers. The earth shall be left to no one.
-
You know, mind allows us to portray in different sensory modalities, visual, auditory, olfactory, you name it, what we are like and what the world is like. But this very, very important quality of subjectivity, this quality that allows us to take a distant view and say, "I am here, I exist, I have a life and there are things around me that refer to me." That me-ness, M-E-hyphen, that is what really constitutes consciousness.
-
It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.
-
You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some direct route back to Jonathan. But I love him to death. He's like my best friend and my big brother.
