Alex Gibney Quotes

I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission. And so, the transparency radical became a secret-keeper instead of a secret-leaker. And that, I think, is a big problem.

Alex Gibney

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• In the Lamborghini I have to avoid certain roads because of pot holes, and there's nowhere to put my drink, no cup holder. And I'm not going to lie, it looks pretentious. I used to think it was cool to, like, drive it to dinner. Now? Like I really need to be looked at any more.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Cool
  • Lie
  • Roads

• There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.

  

  Vash Young
  • Life
  • Victory
  • Achievement

• I didn't feel very attractive as a child and actually I wasn't.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Feel
  • Child
  • Attractive

• As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Man
  • Preparation
  • Slow

• I don't wear a bikini on the beach. I walk around my house in pyjamas. I haven't seen myself naked in the mirror for probably a decade. I'm very prudish.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • House
  • Myself
  • Mirror

• Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today.

  

  Hal Stratton
  • Today
  • Year
  • Back

• I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Musicians

• Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Long
  • Man
  • Mistake

• I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Want
  • Just
  • Director

• Whenever something good happens to me, it's usually followed by something terrible.

  

  Larry David
  • Good
  • Me
  • Terrible

• I always love to come to Austin.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Love
  • Always
  • Austin

• What I learned was that celebrities come to me with a preconceived notion. They think I'm fun, or they've worked with me, or they know me, or we've met. So there's a lot of backstuff on the 'Vicki!' show.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Fun
  • Worked
  • Notion

• I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Confident

• I've always said that if I could do anything in the world, I would be a professional golfer.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • World
  • Professional
  • Said

• I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Tried
  • Academic
  • Marketplace

• From an actor's point of view, you never really like to hope that anything will go beyond the pilot. I'd always say to my agent every time I filmed a pilot, 'Great! Well, I'll see you at pilot season.'

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Time
  • Great
  • Hope

• Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Will
  • Read
  • Essential

• Start your day in a upward direction, and the rest of the day will follow the uphill path.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Day
  • Rest
  • Path

• What is memory for if not to fortify and sustain?

  

  Alice Tisdale Hobart
  • Memory
  • Sustain
  • Fortify

• I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia.

  

  Jerry Falwell
  • Up

• The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

  

  Carolyn Heilbrun
  • Good
  • Marriage
  • Rules

• I believe friends enclose us, like a pair of parentheses. Each one knows us differently, each sustains us in a different way.

  

  Beth Kephart
  • Friends
  • I Believe
  • Paretheses

• Develop resilience and be brave. There are days when it is very discouraging. You have to develop personal resilience to environmental things that come along. If you let every single environmental challenge knock you off your game, it's going to be very, very hard.

  

  Renee James
  • Challenge
  • Personal
  • Resilience

• I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission. And so, the transparency radical became a secret-keeper instead of a secret-leaker. And that, I think, is a big problem.

  

  Alex Gibney