Leo Ornstein Quotes

Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

Leo Ornstein

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• And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Energy
  • Independent
  • Security

• A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Never
  • Roots
  • Filmmaker

• I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Live
  • Enjoy
  • Moment

• A government must always be prepared for the unexpected.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Government
  • Unexpected

• There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Vulnerability
  • U.S.
  • Monsters

• I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Character
  • Choice
  • Pizza

• When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Truth
  • Team
  • Best

• The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Life
  • Art
  • Kitchen

• Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • American
  • Name

• A belief may be larger than a fact.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • May
  • Belief
  • Fact

• I never felt like I had a mother.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Mother
  • Like
  • Never

• Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

  

  Ovid
  • Powerful
  • Chance
  • Pool

• Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Remember
  • You
  • Famous

• Modeling is exciting, but I certainly felt frustrated that I couldn't speak out or express myself. I always wanted to express my desires in some other medium.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Myself
  • Speak
  • Modeling

• I have the kind of personality that I always look ahead than look at what's happened. It does help a lot, especially when you've done badly or you've failed. It's instinctive of me that I look at what's next, I look ahead a lot, and start preparing for that, in victory and in defeat.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Done
  • Help
  • Personality

• Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Money
  • Experience

• Forgiveness in any aspect of something that is complex is the greatest tool.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Forgiveness
  • Greatest
  • Tool

• Regarding 'Ferris Bueller,' I was in the Czech Republic once, in Prague, making a movie at the same time as Jeffrey Jones, who played the principal, who was making a different movie. The Super Bowl was going to be playing at this bar at midnight, so we decided we would go watch the Super Bowl at this bar at midnight in Prague together.

  

  Edie McClurg
  • Time
  • Different
  • Together

• For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Life
  • Real
  • Past

• I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show.

  

  Matthew Weiner
  • Good
  • Business

• I would not have taken off my coat and gone to work had I not known that we were laying the foundations by this movement for the recovery of our legislative independence.

  

  Charles Stewart Parnell
  • Work
  • Taken
  • Recovery

• If you find your truth you must follow it. You could find it in a paper bag, or in a statue, or in a slaughterhouse; you might find it dangling somewhere. People might say, What the heck are you doing? but its ok if they dont understand. And if you follow it, stay true to it, and respect it, you could be in store for the greatest journey you could ever imagine.

  

  Buckethead
  • Truth
  • Statue
  • Slaughterhouse

• There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • World
  • Moments

• Improvisation is terribly haphazard.

  

  Leo Ornstein