Lenny Abrahamson Quotes

I'm a bit of a pessimist, oh yeah, and I always think the film I'm about to make is going to be a disaster.

Lenny Abrahamson

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• I want to have an impact on my son.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Want
  • Son
  • Impact

• However wack anyone thought 'Whatzupwitu' was, there's not a lot of people that have footage of themselves dancing around in the clouds with Michael Jackson. I do have that forever.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • Forever
  • Thought

• You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?

  

  Ian McShane
  • Why
  • She
  • Want

• I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. I have a million shows on my TiVo.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Home
  • Reality
  • Wine

• Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How much do you want me to see?'

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Want
  • Always
  • Body

• Man, 2013, I would expect an album from B.o.B and a Rock EP as well. My Rock EP is like... I take pride in my work and I'm not going to do something just to say that I can do it if I ain't really passionate about doing it. I'm very passionate about my music. Sometimes I take it too seriously.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Work
  • Music
  • Man

• Nobody scares me.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Me
  • Nobody
  • Scares

• I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Home
  • Travel
  • Vegan

• I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Life
  • Up
  • House

• I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • God
  • Sports
  • Training

• You must never tire fighting Satan.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • You
  • Fighting
  • Satan

• My brother told me he was very proud of me, of the business I have built, and that gives me joy.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Business
  • Proud
  • Joy

• Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

  

  Karl Marx
  • People
  • World
  • Heart

• I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Today
  • Me
  • Wonder

• Now that my wine has been served in the White House, why not me? Who could talk to farmers better than I? Somebody even asked me the other day if I had anything in my platform about taxes. 'Hell yes,' I said. 'Great state. But I wouldn't want to live there.'

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Great
  • Live
  • Why

• Let me be as weird as I fuckin' like. It's my fuckin' life.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • Weird

• Light held together by moisture.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Together
  • Light

• It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning, witchcraft and sacerdotalism.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Age
  • Free
  • Faith

• Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • God
  • Belief
  • Great Deal

• The next decade is just going to be explosive. We need to know where we are going to be five, 10, 15 years from now.

  

  Paul Williams The Temptations

• People have a need for certainty - and that need for certainty is in every human being, certainty that you can avoid pain, certainty that you can at least be comfortable. It's a survival instinct.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Need
  • Instinct

• The world worlds, and is more fully in being than the tangible and perceptible realm in which we believe ourselves to be at home...By the opening up of a world, all things gain their lingering and hastening, their remoteness and nearness, their scope and limits. In a world's worlding is gathered that spaciousness out of which the protective grace of the gods is granted and withheld. Even this doom of the god remaining absent is a way in which the world worlds...All coming to presence...keeps itself concealed to the last.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Home
  • Limits
  • Presence

• I'm a bit of a pessimist, oh yeah, and I always think the film I'm about to make is going to be a disaster.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson