Carlo Ponti Quotes

I don't make deals, I make pictures.

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• I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so lucky.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Never
  • Lucky

• Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Government
  • Protect
  • Presidential

• Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Life
  • Better
  • Everyday

• Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many of which clash with the public interest.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Want
  • Government
  • Interest

• I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Writing
  • Singing
  • Dreams

• I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Better
  • Away
  • Pedestal

• In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Power
  • End
  • Actor

• Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • World
  • Mind
  • Language

• For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Sometimes
  • Forever
  • Service

• America has much greatness left in her.

  

  Rand Paul
  • America
  • Greatness
  • Her

• You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Good
  • Know
  • Doing

• My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Years
  • First
  • Fruit

• When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.

  

  Aaron Yoo
  • People
  • New York
  • Subway

• We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Men
  • Community
  • Courage

• We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Symbols
  • Inhabit

• I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Proud
  • Italian
  • Flag

• TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Beautiful
  • TV
  • Ugliness

• Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Nature
  • Sleep

• I wish the Indians had newspapers of their own. If they had, you would have horrible pictures of the cold-blooded murders of inoffensive Indians.

  

  Thaddeus Stevens
  • Pictures
  • Indians
  • Murders

• I don't make deals, I make pictures.

  

  Carlo Ponti
  • Make
  • Deals
  • Pictures