Al Pacino Quotes
You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse; grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God... and where can you go from there?
Quotes to Explore
-
I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.
-
The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
-
I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
-
In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
-
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
-
Schmoozers are brownnosers, sycophants more suited to middle management than to the Wild West of the entrepreneurial world.
-
I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
-
It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
-
In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
-
I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
-
I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
-
The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
-
I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
-
The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
-
Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
-
It's important to have a big-enough house in order to have space.
-
When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.
-
I read 'Pushing the Limit' and 'Dare You To' by Katie McGarry. Fantastic stuff. I had never read young adult before, but now I'm a believer.
-
The worry here is ... will the information that is collected here for one purpose be used for other purposes? ... The government history on this subject is not an encouraging one.
-
I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame.
-
In the end, I'm lucky enough to travel the world and make albums and not have to worry about not having a job.
-
You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse; grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God... and where can you go from there?
