Bennett Miller Quotes

I don't like sensationalizing events. Instead of making waves, I want to make everything settle, so we can see to the bottom of things.

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• A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Famous
  • Quiet

• Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Rich
  • Security
  • More

• My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Time
  • Space
  • Joy

• The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Question

• Não tenho ambições nem desejosSer poeta não é uma ambição minhaÉ a minha maneira de estar sozinho.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with 'expressing' myself with obscure creative impressions.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Laughter

• Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever: But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an œconomy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure that he may speak it the longer.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Truth
  • Exercise

• Aunt Agatha, who eats broken bottles and wears barbed wire next to the skin.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Broken
  • Aunt

• Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath

• I'm for decency - period. I'm for anything and everything that bodes love and consideration for my fellow man. But when lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday - cash me out.

  

  Frank Sinatra
  • Service
  • Period
  • Sunday

• Put forth thy leaf, thou lofty plane,East wind and frost are safely gone;With zephyr mild and balmy rainThe summer comes serenely on;Earth, air, and sun and skies combineTo promise all that’s kind and fair:-But thou, O human heart of mine,Be still, contain thyself, and bear.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Heart
  • Earth
  • Air

• Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?

  

  John Adams
  • Free
  • Catholic

• I fear the vermin that shall undermine Senate and citadel and school and shrine.

  

  Edwin Markham
  • School
  • Fear

• The script that I fell in love with and adored was 'Jane the Virgin'... but every line in the pilot was essentially, 'Why did you keep my daughter a secret all of these years?' I didn't know any direction my character was going - was it going to be a dramatic character, a comedic character? - I didn't know.

  

  Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
  • Why
  • Character
  • Daughter

• It is very good to be Olympic champion, but that is not the strongest field.

  

  Martin Lel
  • Good
  • Champion

• People can talk about punk all they want, but after new wave put that down, metal is the voice of the disenfranchised and that need to become unhinged. That's why it appeals to so many people when they are younger and carries over when those people, at 40, don't want to grow up.

  

  Corey Taylor Stone Sour
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.

  

  Amos Lee
  • Mother
  • Father

• The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • God
  • Long
  • Business

• All decisions originate in the brain. So if we can better understand what's happening in the brain when we make investment decisions, maybe one day we'll be able to make more accurate financial forecasts - for a stock or even the entire market.

  

  Kabir Sehgal
  • Brain
  • Financial
  • Stock

• As long as I'm getting waves and having fun, the results tend to take care of themselves.

  

  Joel Parkinson
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Waves

• The people considered the most in need of protection were women and children. The sex considered most disposable was men – or males....

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I don't like sensationalizing events. Instead of making waves, I want to make everything settle, so we can see to the bottom of things.

  

  Bennett Miller
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