George Tillman, Jr. Quotes

I'm in this business to make films, not get deluded by the system. The system is set up to give you a headache.

George Tillman, Jr.

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• The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Live
  • Me
  • Star

• I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Want
  • Place
  • Lady

• Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • Used
  • Furniture
  • Meant To Be

• Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Country
  • America
  • Future

• I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Zendaya
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Like

• I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • People
  • Creative
  • Impossible

• The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Name
  • Will
  • Redskins

• A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Future
  • Death
  • Past

• I think L.A. radio is learning from the Bay. The Bay is a very classic place. Mac Mall, C-Bo, all that stuff, they love their artists, they're old school up there. My first big concert was playing in the Bay; I played the Fillmore.

  

  Ice T
  • School
  • Think
  • Learning

• If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Gun
  • Background
  • Desk

• I would describe my dancing talents as incredibly deep.

  

  Taylor Phinney
  • Deep
  • Dancing
  • Talents

• But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Music
  • Industry
  • Download

• A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.

  

  Ward McAllister
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Rich

• In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and others.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Look

• The one thing you can control is effort.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • You
  • Control
  • Effort

• As we were all growing up, there used to be a very big mantra in India which was called 'export or perish.' There was a long period when we used to focus on import substitution.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Up
  • Long
  • Growing

• Truthfully, the person with whom I identified most in Heinlein's early works was Rhysling in 'The Green Hills of Earth.'

  

  Pamela Dean
  • Earth
  • Green
  • Most

• It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones.

  

  Joan D. Vinge
  • Writing
  • Past
  • Present

• How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.

  

  Olympia Brown
  • Down
  • Principles
  • System

• Up, and at my chamber all the morning and the office doing business, and also reading a little of L'escholle des filles, which is a mighty lewd book, but yet not amiss for a sober man once to read over to inform himself in the villainy of the world.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • Up
  • World
  • Business

• I don't often think of Donald Trump, but his daughter is very smart. She's a woman working in real estate, which is predominantly men, and she's both savvy and articulate about her business and her business acumen.

  

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
  • Men
  • Real
  • She

• I really believe God has put me in the entertainment business, and he's taken real good care of me along the way. I want to do all I can to give him all the credit.

  

  Austin O'Brien
  • Good
  • God
  • Believe

• I'm in this business to make films, not get deluded by the system. The system is set up to give you a headache.

  

  George Tillman, Jr.
  • Business
  • Films
  • System