Alex Meraz Quotes

Actually I do support a charity, DefendersofWildLife.org. They help protect endangered species.

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• When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Love
  • Teacher
  • Magic

• When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Time
  • Place
  • Paths

• The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Me
  • Liberty
  • Members

• There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Action
  • Worry
  • Optimism

• Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Business
  • Humanity
  • Movies

• We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • War
  • Fight
  • New

• I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Break
  • Forgotten
  • Changing

• Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.

  

  Immaculee Ilibagiza
  • Men
  • Parents
  • Brother

• I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Girl
  • Sexy
  • Train

• Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Remember
  • Perfect
  • Moment

• The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Important
  • Most
  • Destructive

• The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Work
  • Kids
  • American

• Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Doing

• Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Woman

• The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Great
  • Beauty
  • Mountain

• I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • World
  • Music
  • Long

• At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

• My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Life
  • Money
  • Giving

• One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.

  

  Meg Cabot
  • Writing

• A director should not define everything. For me, the movie is a form of a question I pose to the others or to the audience. I want to ask their opinion on my point of view and discuss it with them.

  

  Kim Ki-duk
  • Movie
  • Question
  • Opinion

• We know that working with small businesses to create jobs will do more to help our economy than anything the Obama Administration has tried to do.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • Help
  • Small

• Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Christian
  • Enjoy
  • Melancholy

• I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Culture
  • Essentially
  • Counterculture

• Actually I do support a charity, DefendersofWildLife.org. They help protect endangered species.

  

  Alex Meraz
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