Taylor Hackford Quotes
If people are worried about the size of their trailers, I kind of say their priorities are off.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
-
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
-
A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
-
I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.
-
For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.
-
I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
-
Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
-
I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
-
I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
-
With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.
-
I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
-
Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
-
My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
-
Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
-
When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
-
There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual,' but that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. I don't really talk about it that often, because there's too much talk in the world. Especially with Christians, there's more proselytizing than there is actual living proof of it. That's kind of sad.
-
Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
-
I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.
-
Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her.
-
When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
-
I don't feel drawn to lightness, I need something more. I feel that - oh, I hate saying this, it sounds so wanky - but I feel a real urge to give voices to people we don't usually hear from in real life.
-
Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.
-
Now suddenly you got members of your White House team who were 23, 24. They've met their wives here, or their husbands here.
-
If people are worried about the size of their trailers, I kind of say their priorities are off.
