David Gordon Green Quotes

It's been an obsession of various genres, disciplines, and aspects and elements of movie-making. It's always been something that I've really aspired to, so doing something new and different, reinventing myself and working with new people is just the passport to the amazing world that is the movies.

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• I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Opportunities
  • Hood

• He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • Family
  • Order
  • Public

• Being a celebrity is a business.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Business
  • Being
  • Celebrity

• Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Music
  • Simple
  • Language

• In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• It's jarring to live in a world where every person feels his life will only get better when you came from a world where many rightfully believe that things have become worse. And I've suspected that this optimism blinds many in Silicon Valley to the real struggles in other parts of the country. So I decided to move home to Ohio.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Life
  • World
  • Believe

• I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Believe
  • Man

• It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Up
  • Animal
  • Bird

• I don't think you can beat your audience over the head with hard-hitting cartoons day after day after day.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Think
  • Day
  • Audience

• I think about making a comeback every single day. I went running, I went training, did that for a few days. But my body couldn't handle it.

  

  Oscar De La Hoya
  • Running
  • Single
  • Day

• The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Good
  • American

• We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Death
  • Enemies
  • Celebrate

• I think people should do whatever they want to do. That's the point. Why should you care what other people think or say? You're not living in their pocket.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Why
  • Think

• Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Technology
  • Engineering

• No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Women
  • Gay

• 'Hello Rabbit, is that you?''Let's pretend it isn't', said Rabbit, 'and see what happens.'

  

  A. A. Milne

• Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man’s mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • World
  • Mind
  • Knowledge

• My appearance on 'Public School' garnered a smattering of fan mail from girls, which was good, and letters from mothers saying I was the sort of boy they'd like their daughters to go out with - which was not quite as good.

  

  James Lovegrove
  • Good
  • School
  • Boy

• The scope of modern government in what it can and ought to accomplish for its people has been widened far beyond the principles laid down by the old "laissez faire" school of political rights, and the widening has met popular approval.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • People
  • School
  • Political

• When you knock people out, it's sometimes a very scary situation - but I always hoped that no one got seriously hurt. Now when I see them get knocked out, I laugh. When you finish the game, it's funny. And when I look at film of myself, I think, 'I wouldn't fight that guy.'

  

  Marvin Hagler
  • People
  • Guy
  • Game

• I just have to be very clear. Whether or not I lose weight or stay the same, it's purely a choice of mine for health. Not because I think that plus size, curvy, voluptuous, big bodies aren't attractive - because I think they're awesome and sexy.

  

  Chrissy Metz
  • Health
  • Sexy
  • Awesome

• I had beautiful wavy hair and a waxed mustache.

  

  Curly Howard
  • Beautiful
  • Hair

• I'm more interested in the future than in the past, because the future is where I intend to live.

  

  Alfred Einstein
  • Live
  • Future
  • Intend

• It's been an obsession of various genres, disciplines, and aspects and elements of movie-making. It's always been something that I've really aspired to, so doing something new and different, reinventing myself and working with new people is just the passport to the amazing world that is the movies.

  

  David Gordon Green
  • People
  • Different
  • Movies