Alan Oliveira Quotes

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Alan Oliveira

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• It's been a long slog back, and we've still got a long way to go.

  

  Ted Strickland
  • Long
  • Way
  • Back

• My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Mind
  • Business
  • Creative

• I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.

  

  Barbara Stanwyck
  • Lord
  • Now
  • Brighton

• I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Think
  • Strong
  • Colleagues

• Such a gift might be easily taken back again.

  

  Veronica Franco
  • Taken
  • Gift
  • Back

• I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Think
  • Very
  • Relationships

• Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Think

• There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Family
  • Father
  • Rich

• It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.

  

  O. Henry
  • World
  • Love
  • Wind

• My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Relationship
  • Taken
  • Year

• I don't see Hollywood as the big enemy, because this is where the money is, and not all of the companies are doing studio movies. I'm not tempted to sell out. If I'm going to become well known, I want it to be for something I'm proud of.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Money
  • Proud
  • Enemy

• It is not natural or inevitable that half the world goes hungry; that the freedom of markets trumps protection of the planet; or that citizens' rights come second to those of corporations.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Protection

• Those who are esteemed umpires of taste are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Beautiful
  • Knowledge
  • Selfish

• If the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms insists upon a firefight, give them a firefight. Just remember, they're wearing flak jackets and you're better off shooting for the head.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Remember
  • Alcohol

• Nam divitiarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis est, virtus clara aeternaque habetur.

  

  Sallust

• Kristol's warning that neoconservatives could go to Kerry was an admission of what many have long recognized. The neoconservatives are not really conservatives at all. They are impostors and opportunists.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Long

• The path that leads from the persona to the self, from the adult to the outlaw, consists of learning to distinguish between false desire and true desire, or superficial desire and profound desire, or obsessive desire and free passion, … or illusory needs and real needs.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Real
  • True
  • Free

• Patriotism ruins history.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Men
  • Reality
  • Imagination

• The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Technology
  • Worth
  • Investment

• In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy has become, for some people, a negative one. The word 'cowboy' implies a strong, stubborn individual whose individualism depends on pulling down other people's individualism.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • World
  • Strong

• We're always grasping to feel safe. Ultimately, some people feel safe through love or family or community. Some people through exerting control.

  

  Lauren Cohan
  • People
  • Family
  • Community

• I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do.

  

  Jonathan Krohn

• There is no fundamental cleavage between Hindus and Mussalmans. We have lived in the same land as brothers for generations and what has been possible all these years will certainly be possible in the future.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Generation
  • Land
  • Cleavage

• What I have to show, I show on the track.

  

  Alan Oliveira