Allison Anders Quotes
Do we have to be rail thin to possess 'outer beauty' and sex appeal and to be capable of attracting lovers?
Quotes to Explore
-
Apple's advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn't excellent, it does the superlative hardware a disservice.
-
If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
-
I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
-
With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
-
I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
-
I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
-
I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
-
I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
-
My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There was a responsibility on my shoulders to run the household. It was my duty as the eldest child in the house.
-
My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
-
What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.
-
I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
-
Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
-
The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.
-
I have no mouth, and I must scream.
-
If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
-
In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres.
-
I received so many hate letters when I breast-fed a starving baby in Africa. I was in Sierra Leone in 2009 and I was weaning my child at that time - she was not there with me. There was a hungry baby who was crying because his mother had no milk, and I thought, 'Why throw away my milk if I can give it to a baby who needs it?'
-
If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.
-
Sub-optimization is when everyone is for himself. Optimization is when everyone is working to help the company.
-
The idea of being a practicing Catholic, it's - for me, it's like - I need a lot of practice, you know what I mean?
-
Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.
-
Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.
-
Do we have to be rail thin to possess 'outer beauty' and sex appeal and to be capable of attracting lovers?
