Liev Schreiber Quotes

Entitlement is lethal.

Liev Schreiber

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• I always try to keep a little bit of space in the year to work with other people. Because I love doing musicals, films and plays - projects where I'm not in charge, where I've got somebody else telling me what to do and I have to work with their vision.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • People
  • Work
  • Space

• The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Things
  • Complete
  • Incredible

• Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

  

  Oswald Spengler
  • Capitalism
  • Socialism
  • Lower

• The job of the president of the United States is to talk to the public, is to explain to them. Now, some presidents talk too much, like Bill Clinton. Some presidents try to talk but don't know how, like George Bush senior.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Job
  • Know
  • Try

• I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.

  

  J. Cole
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Myself

• The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Capitalism

• It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Men
  • Girl
  • Action

• When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• Obama was elected on a slogan of hope and change because both were in short supply: the military exhausted by two wars, the banks failing their public trust, the U.S. Congress a comedy of dysfunction, and a federal government that seemed designed to idle on the sidelines.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Comedy

• If I'm going to get hit, why let the guy who's going to hit me get the easiest and best shot? I explode into the guy who's trying to tackle me.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Guy

• 'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Old
  • Conversation
  • Looking

• Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer; it's just to annoy you.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Experience
  • American
  • Purpose

• People do bad things, but that doesn't mean they don't have other colors or qualities.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Bad
  • Colors

• It has made me realise how many doors open for you when you're up for an Oscar. It seems once you are nominated, it validates you as a serious director, and you become someone that people want to work with.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Many people continue to think of sharks as man-eating beasts. Sharks are enormously powerful and wild creatures, but you're more likely to be killed by your kitchen toaster than a shark!

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Kitchen

• But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Thought

• It's human when you get the sense that somebody likes you or is attracted to you - unless you're just completely repulsed by the person - I find that my first reaction is to entertain the idea.

  

  Tara Lynne Barr
  • You
  • Find
  • First

• Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.

  

  Jack Vance

• I didn't tell anybody about my plan because I was convinced my family or friends would stop me. I didn't think much about what would happen afterwards.

  

  Mathias Rust
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Stop

• The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • War
  • Cold
  • Gymnastics

• All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is talking only to me. "Long after we are gone, our words will be all that is left, and who is to say what really happened or even what reality is? Our stories, our fiction, our words will be as close to truth as can be. And no one can take that away from you.

  

  Nora Raleigh Baskin
  • Reality
  • Stories
  • Talking

• When I look into the Ericsson's mobility report that has predictions till 2018, the majority of people having mobile broadband by 2018 will be on 3G.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • People
  • Look
  • Mobile

• The days, the nights, flow one by one above us,The hours go silently over our lifted faces,We are like dreamers who walk beneath a sea.Beneath high walls we flow in the sun together.We sleep, we wake, we laugh, we pursue, we flee.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Together
  • High
  • Sleep

• Entitlement is lethal.

  

  Liev Schreiber