Ang Lee Quotes

I'm a big boy now, and I have to deliver.

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• I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Different
  • Development
  • Percent

• When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Science
  • Know
  • Passion

• I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Small
  • Team
  • Basketball

• I've seen women afraid to stretch for things. They avoid opportunities they don't feel qualified for yet. Instead, they should grab risky opportunities that will force them to grow on the job and learn to do it.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Women
  • Job
  • Opportunities

• Sometimes I get emotional when I'm doing 'Lonesome Valley' or 'Wildwood Rose.'

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Sometimes
  • Emotional
  • Doing

• A lot happens in 20 years.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Years
  • Happens
  • Lot

• I grew up pretty much with nothing.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Nothing

• I got lost but look what I found.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Lost
  • Look
  • Found

• People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • People
  • Sick
  • Walk

• After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Process
  • Security
  • Laws

• The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Life
  • Music
  • Rest

• Executives are waking up to realize that they can do a lot better, save money, make better decisions if they optimize and start thinking geographically and have a location strategy.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Money

• We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.

  

  Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot
  • Time
  • Care
  • Baby

• There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they're interchangeable. You don't have a feeling about them.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Women
  • Feeling
  • Personality

• I had a very active imagination as a kid, and I was constantly performing, whether I was making money doing it or not, whether it was on a stage in front of 1,000 people or in the living room in front of my family.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • People
  • Family
  • Money

• Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Man
  • Knows
  • Rain

• This problem is the most difficult and the last to be solved by mankind.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Problem
  • Mankind
  • Solved

• I really miss Gunsmoke. It was like losing my whole family.

  

  Ken Curtis
  • Family

• I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • English
  • Actor
  • Accent

• I have learned nothing in twenty years that would suggest that evil people can be rapidly influenced by any means other than raw power. They do not respond, at least in the short run, to either gentle kindness or any form of spiritual persuasion with which I am familiar.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • People
  • Power
  • Running

• It's a lot of fun to be able to run around with guns and scream and yell and do the kind of FBI-cop kind of stuff, which is different than what I've been doing, which is kind of playing the boy-girl thing. Its always fun to kiss the pretty girl, but sometimes, amazingly, you can get bored with that, too.

  

  David Sutcliffe
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• Kids out there now have learning issues. Having mental issues. And everybody is looking towards what drug to give them, but is anyone looking at the food that the children are eating? What you're eating has a big impact.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Giving

• I'm a big boy now, and I have to deliver.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Boy
  • Boys
  • Bigs