Bela Karolyi Quotes

What is the cruelest thing you can do to someone who is trying to concentrate? Call their name.

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• The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Kids
  • Problem
  • Youth

• When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Hope
  • Energy
  • Light

• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Like

• I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Mercy
  • Drive

• Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Sometimes
  • Fake
  • Credit

• I personally don't think you should ever date someone you work with, will work with, etc. I won't ever date an actor.

  

  Gage Golightly
  • Work
  • Think
  • Actor

• Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Question
  • Learning
  • Curiosity

• Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Color
  • Matter
  • Taste

• Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Nice

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Work
  • Idea
  • Research

• I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Strong
  • Sometimes
  • Exercise

• My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • World
  • Law
  • Garden

• A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • You
  • Thought
  • Original

• History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • History
  • Study
  • Questions

• I always direct next to the camera and watch my actors, and so you can see the small things that you can't see on the small screen but you can definitely see on the big screen.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Small
  • Camera
  • Small Things

• Ricky Martin is one of my idols in the industry.

  

  Maluma
  • Industry
  • Idols
  • Ricky

• I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

  

  James Brown
  • Play
  • Knows
  • Stuff

• I just think people are fed up with people who are career politicians who don't stand for anything.

  

  Carlos Beruff
  • People
  • Up
  • Career

• You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Green
  • Cutting
  • Directors

• I think, for many teens, a fundamental fact of the teenage experience is that you're in between this childlike state, in which you're told you're completely unqualified for just about anything in the adult world, and this adult world, where you're being told you have to be responsible, and you're just trying to figure out where you stand.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • World
  • Trying
  • Experience

• The Moon and Pleiades have set, Midnight is nigh, The time is passing, passing, yet Alone I lie.

  

  Sappho
  • Night
  • Moon
  • Lying

• What is the cruelest thing you can do to someone who is trying to concentrate? Call their name.

  

  Bela Karolyi
  • Trying