Eli Roth Quotes

Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.

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• The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Great
  • Together
  • Parents

• I want to pursue a career in film.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Want
  • Career
  • Film

• Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.

  

  Nas
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Praise

• Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Culture
  • Powerful
  • Rich

• When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • You
  • Heaven
  • Agriculture

• I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school.

  

  Maiwenn
  • School
  • Family
  • Culture

• Neoconservatism had the philosophy that you go in with a supply-led approach to impose democratic values from the top down. Whereas Islamists and far-right organizations, for decades, have been building demand for their ideology on the grassroots.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Philosophy
  • Values
  • Building

• It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Life
  • Work
  • Rest

• I know what it means to do a job... I worked in a factory. I respect people in the service industry. What irritates me more is when people aren't respectful. There's a lot of nonsense behavior, especially in a place like Hollywood. The money, the power, they create little monsters.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Good
  • Football
  • Politics

• It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Celebrity
  • Go
  • Zero

• I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these things. That's why it's almost like a complex in me that I want to explode myself in my films.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Education
  • Me
  • Welfare

• We didn't exist. Ronald Reagan didn't say the word 'AIDS' until 1987. I've tried desperately to get a meeting in the White House; Gay Men's Health Crisis is already an established organization. I have a certain presence.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Men
  • House
  • Health

• I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • People
  • Think
  • Divorce

• I made a lot of mistakes growing up, trying so hard to fit in. I got so lost trying to please everybody.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Growing

• I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Think
  • Discipline
  • Down

• It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Sea
  • River

• To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Bad

• As the inventor of the Immortality Device, I basically just tell people what I honestly think.

  

  Alex Chiu
  • People

• My experience with music, I'm not going to say extremely negative, but it's definitely been a grind; it's been grimy - it hasn't been a pretty process. It's left me crying, you know, on the carpet in my tiny apartment with, like, no money. But it's been worth it, it's my passion, my dream, it's what I love to do.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Music
  • Money
  • Love

• It's probably 10% luck and 45-45 on the driver and the car. If you have a bad car, you're done.

  

  Kevin Harvick
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Car

• Lincoln sees slavery in some ways as a theft of labor. A slave is a laborer who is being denied the fruits of his labor.

  

  Eric Foner
  • Slavery
  • Labor
  • Lincoln

• Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.

  

  Eli Roth