Lenny Abrahamson Quotes

I love the cinema, but I'm not a fascist about it. I've had some of my best experiences watching things on TV. But if I were Stalin, I would force everyone to be in the theater.

Lenny Abrahamson

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• War diminishes both civil and economic rights.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Economic
  • Rights

• I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Want
  • Dark
  • Negative

• There are essential elements for our public schools to fully develop the potential of both students and educators. They should be centers of community, where students, families and educators work together to support student success. They should foster collaboration.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Work
  • Together
  • Success

• I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Sometimes
  • Beat

• After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.

  

  Yvonne De Carlo
  • Movie
  • Star
  • Learn

• Not owning a car anymore, I feel like I'm barely an American. I miss it. And I barely ever get to listen to the radio in the car, which is the best place for radio.

  

  Ira Glass
  • American
  • Best
  • Car

• Obviously I've gone out of my way in my career to not look good, so it's always nice to, every once in a while, get the opposite going.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • Good
  • Career
  • Nice

• I really don't have a favorite meal. I eat anything.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Favorite
  • Eat
  • Meal

• The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Good
  • May
  • Bad

• The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing is writing.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Ideas

• My philosophy is always to fulfill contracts.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Always
  • Philosophy
  • Fulfill

• It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Character

• It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Matter
  • Get
  • Ball

• I have a controversial opinion about evil, because I don't believe evil exists. I believe that actions are dark and destructive but I don't believe evil is a thing. I believe it's a by-product of man's fear and desperation.

  

  Victor Salva
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Fear

• Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.

  

  Wendell Mayes
  • Win
  • Army
  • Run

• I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even required, just an elective - on the world's religions.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • World
  • Mind
  • Why

• The following terms all mean one and the same thing: God, goodness, mental health, truth, decency, happiness, freedom, reality, peace, love, sensibleness.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • God
  • Love
  • Truth

• This vain presumption, of understanding everything, can have no other basis than never understanding anything. For anyone who had experienced just once the understanding of one single thing, thus truly tasting how knowledge is accomplished, would then recognize that of the infinity of other truths, he understands nothing.

  

  Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Knowledge
  • Single
  • Understanding

• My desk is more of a place where I set my stuff, and then I move around. If I'm at the office, I'm usually wandering around to different meeting rooms all day or taking people out or making tea. I'm rarely at my desk; it's just a place to hang my hat.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • People
  • Different
  • Tea

• The fact that I don't have any particular need for religion doesn't mean that I have a need to cast religion aside the way some of my colleagues do.

  

  Brian Greene

• We try to get the best performance out of the artists. There is no point in saying to them, 'You're useless.'

  

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

• It's only when you suddenly stop perspiring that your forearms go dull.

  

  George Antheil
  • Dull
  • Suddenly

• I love the cinema, but I'm not a fascist about it. I've had some of my best experiences watching things on TV. But if I were Stalin, I would force everyone to be in the theater.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson