Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.
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The 'Agent X' set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud noise on set, which included gun shots and explosions. After we finished filming the season, I realized I missed hearing all the noise and driving on empty freeways.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.
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The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
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I've never graced the cover of a fashion magazine.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point — a great crossroads in our life.
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… We live in a world where John Lennon was murdered, yet Barry Manilow continues to put out fucking albums. God-dammit! If you're gonna kill somebody, have some fucking taste. I'll drive you to Kenny Rogers' house.
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The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend — and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him.
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A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
