Ben Stiller Quotes

There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.

Ben Stiller

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• I'm regularly speaking at London Business School and Harvard Business School. They're the next generation of leaders in the fashion industry.

  

  Imran Amed
  • School
  • Business
  • Fashion

• Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • May
  • Science
  • Problems

• You need to train your brain to be positive.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Brain
  • Positive
  • Train

• The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • History
  • Nation
  • Most

• You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • City
  • Best
  • Animal

• I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Time
  • Ego
  • Relationships

• If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Butter

• If you're being attacked by something on the outside, which I feel a lot being in show business, you just have to dial it back and breathe and know that you are protected.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Business
  • Know
  • Feel

• I watched the first moon landing at a bar in Paducah, Kentucky, a fact worth mentioning only because I still remember how suddenly silence descended on this raucous place when Neil Armstrong started coming down that ladder.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Remember
  • Silence
  • Moon

• There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Religion

• It's been a dream of mine to run my own summer camp. I went to one as a kid, and I put on productions, and got lots of confidence.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Dream
  • Confidence
  • Summer

• In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • World
  • Faith
  • Prayer

• As an actress you can participate, you can be a co-author, help the director. But I always wanted to be able to make the big decisions.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Help
  • Always
  • Author

• A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Ethical
  • Blindness

• The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids, it's how you look at your life, what you make of it. It's about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Single

• I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Live
  • Women
  • Law

• We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Integrity
  • Now
  • Plan

• A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Government
  • Like
  • Walking

• I have more love in my life than I ever dreamed or imagined.

  

  Paloma Ayana Stoecker
  • Life

• The wind outside nested in each tree, prowled the sidewalks in invisible treads like unseen cats. Tom Skelton shivered. Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows' Eve. Everything seemed cut from soft black velvet or gold or orange velvet. Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like the plumes of funeral parades. From kitchen windows drifted two pumpkin smells: gourds being cut, pies being baked.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Night
  • Black
  • Gold

• I went through so many phases when I was young - surfer girl, tom boy, punk - but they weren't mistakes, just moments.

  

  Jillian Hervey
  • Girl
  • Moments
  • Boy

• I love arguing. I always say that I'll never win a physical battle, but I can always win a mental battle. I mean, not really, because I never really argue with anyone.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Win
  • Battle
  • Mental

• There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.

  

  Ben Stiller