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
  • Why
  • Like
  • 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
  • Question
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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
  • Will
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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
  • Always
  • 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
  • Feel
  • Conversation

• I love myself and I am a good person.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Person

• 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
  • Difficult
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  • Lightning

• 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
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• Is all the world jails and churches?

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • World

• 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

• I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Technology
  • Democracy

• Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

  

  Seneca the Younger
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• Throughout history, we have only moved forward when society has distinguished between traditional values and valueless traditions.

  

  Jared Polis
  • History
  • Society

• Most people can't see beauty and love. I see our music as medicine.

  

  Maurice White Earth, Wind & Fire
  • People
  • Music

• Surely it's better to live in the country, to live on a prairie by a drawing of rivers, in Iowa or Illinois or Indiana, say, than in any city, in any stinking fog of human beings, in any blooming orchard of machines. It ought to be.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Country
  • Drawing
  • Cities

• 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