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

• Poirot twinkled at her gently.

  

  Agatha Christie

• Gorillas have a belch vocalization, which is sort of like, 'I'm OK, you're OK.' They do a pig grunt, which is reprimanding. They sing, they laugh, and they hoot, which grows into a chest-beating display.

  

  Andy Serkis

• Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . .

  

  Emily Blackwell
  • Social
  • Civilizations
  • Intercourse

• Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond to it.

  

  Alan Blinder
  • Opinion
  • Democracy
  • Input

• The things you're passionate about and interested in, get experience with them by going deep on projects. I would encourage science projects, plays. Pursue science, math, writing, history - the 21st century demands a lot of cross-disciplinary thinking.

  

  Megan Smith
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Experience

• 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