J. J. Abrams Quotes

I do think that at a certain point, the reboot sequel mode has to give way to original ideas and back to a place where, you know, films are, you know, a medium and the cinema is a place you go to see something that is, you know, wholly new.

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• I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
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  • Always

• In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • Up
  • Black
  • Sixties

• The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
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  • Everyone

• That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Work
  • Team

• Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • You
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• When I'm working, I always read stuff that's as far away from what I'm working on as possible, so I'll read American crime fiction at bedtime, or Emily Dickinson.

  

  Mal Peet
  • American
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  • Crime

• I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Great
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• I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.

  

  Banksy
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• Senator McCain is Israel's most unconditional ally in Mossad's machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Service
  • Creation
  • Worst

• The fact is, I view part of what I do is, if necessary, on difficult issues, be the lightning rod.

  

  Gary Bettman
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  • View
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• I'm not successful in Hollywood, and I probably would never be. I think Hollywood has such an interesting model for success, and it creates those successful people. I'm not in that chosen category, but what is successful for me is that, in spite of that, I've been able to work and do the things that I wrote down that I wanted to do and be.

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• My aunt and uncle would come over when my mom was making this, or we would go over there when they were making that. That's what food is.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Food
  • Mom
  • Uncle

• Is all the world jails and churches?

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
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• There were clouds like sharks with open jaws in the sky that morning.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Morning
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• Jihad should be waged in places where there is war. Bombings in places where there is no war is not a good thing.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
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• Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are deceptive and treacherous. Wherefore one must hold fast to facts in generalizations also, and occupy oneself with facts persistently, if one is to acquire that ready and infallible habit which we call 'the art of medicine.'

  

  Hippocrates
  • Art
  • Habit
  • Affirmation

• We seem to have an ingrained idea that if something is valuable, it exists outside of time.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • Time

• The rich man... is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

• It's time to take Economics 101 to Washington. We believe in liberty, we believe in limited government, we believe in free enterprise, we believe in family values and the sanctity of human life, and we all believe Washington needs a good dose of Economics 101.

  

  Kurt Bills
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• I will always consider myself a punk because of those experiences in high school. It will always be a part of me.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • School
  • High

• One thing is funny because my grandparents are going to come see the show and my mom was concerned that they wouldn't understand, because so much of it is Internet-based. Our generation specifically really relates to it, because we were the first people to discover the Internet and most of us can maybe navigate the Internet better than our parents can. All this information you could ever possibly know is right at our fingertips, not to mention the fact you can meet anyone!

  

  Sarah Steele
  • People
  • Mom
  • Parent

• I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting. The more different they are, the bigger the challenge.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

  

  Ivy Compton-Burnett
  • Past
  • Sorrow
  • Capacity

• I do think that at a certain point, the reboot sequel mode has to give way to original ideas and back to a place where, you know, films are, you know, a medium and the cinema is a place you go to see something that is, you know, wholly new.

  

  J. J. Abrams