Louis Gossett, Jr. Quotes
When I'm offered a role, I look at what I think I can do with it. I look to see if I can project myself into it.Louis Gossett, Jr.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
Felix Dennis -
You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.
Hari Kondabolu -
What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead -
To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
e. e. cummings -
My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.
Rae Dawn Chong -
I think a lot of people are curious about what makes people do what they do, and I guess my curiosity isn't hidden in any way.
Karin Slaughter
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
Ornette Coleman -
As a lot of the venture capital world seems to be shifting away from consumer, we want to make sure that consumer entrepreneurs know there's still money available.
Dan Levitan -
I make all my decisions on intuition.
Ingmar Bergman -
When you're filming, it's very different from what you see on screen.
Maisie Williams -
Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.
Jack Nicholson -
It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.
Taylor Phinney
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A private ball this was called...but Lord! my dear Sir, I believe I saw half the world!
Frances Burney -
Through rationality we shall become awesome, and invent and test systematic methods for making people awesome, and plot to optimize everything in sight, and the more fun we have the more people will want to join us.
Eliezer Yudkowsky -
Condemn me if you choose - I do that myself, - but condemn me, and not the path which I am following, and which I point out to those who ask me where, in my opinion, the path is.
Leo Tolstoy -
To her who gives and takes back all, to nature, the man who is instructed and modest says, Give what thou wilt; take back what thou wilt. And he says this not proudly, but obediently and well pleased with her.
Marcus Aurelius -
Aim at being loved without being admired.
Ludwig Wittgenstein -
Chi non punisce il male comanda che si faccia.
Leonardo da Vinci
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I think that literature is something that embraces a much larger experience than politics. It's an expression of what is life, of what are all the dimensions of life. But politics is one among others.
Mario Vargas Llosa -
Anjali: Oh, wow. I am tripping out that I actually get to work here! Being constantly surrounded by books! Bringing ideas, poems, and manifestoes to the world! How can you stand it?!Jezanna: That reminds me, Lois. The lube shipment just came in.
Alison Bechdel -
When I'm offered a role, I look at what I think I can do with it. I look to see if I can project myself into it.
Louis Gossett, Jr.