Bennett Miller Quotes

I like going into a scene knowing that the script isn't quite finished, that there's something that isn't really going to reveal itself until something spontaneously occurs.

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• I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Enjoy
  • Race
  • motivation

• There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Country
  • Political
  • Strong

• My music is best understood by children and animals.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • Children
  • Best

• Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Enthusiasm

• After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

  

  W. Richard Stevens
  • Field
  • Programming
  • After

• It sounds really corny but I think that if you're beautiful inside it shows on the outside, for sure.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • You

• A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Work
  • Stop

• Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Mean
  • Show
  • Just Because

• Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • God
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• People now tell me it's a good thing I stayed away from teen films. Well, it wasn't my choice. I wasn't hired.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Good
  • Teen

• If I had to model clothes in a time period other than the 21st century, I think I'd like to model way back when they just wore skin loincloths. That would be best suited for me - better than corsets. I'm quite claustrophobic.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Time
  • Best
  • Period

• Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • School
  • Power
  • Age

• Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • More
  • Supreme

• With wrestling, you can't describe how that connection with an audience happens. I can't teach anybody how that happens. The bad things that have happened to me in WWE have made that connection stronger.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Bad
  • Audience
  • Connection

• Schools should be places of learning and joy, not testing and agita.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Learning
  • Joy
  • Testing

• What do wealthy people do with their money? They can only buy so many cars, houses, and steak dinners. So we either give it away or invest it.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Money
  • Invest

• What bitcoin does better than the current financial system is it's a better stored value globally. There are a lot of countries that really don't trust their banks or their currency, and bitcoin is an alternative.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Trust
  • Value
  • Financial

• The goal of human life is not death but resurrection.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Life
  • Death

• Prudence is … more than mere shrewdness. If not tied down to the noble and just ends that one has been habituated to love, the soul's native power of cleverness can lead to the utmost knavery.

  

  Leon Kass
  • Power
  • Soul

• I live,But live to die: and, living, see no thingTo make death hateful, save an innate clinging,A loathsome and yet all invincibleInstinct of life, which I abhor, as IDespise myself, yet cannot overcome-And so I live. Would I had never lived!

  

  Lord Byron
  • Life
  • Live
  • Death

• I mean, obviously, a lot of people know me around the world. Kids know me.

  

  Jennifer Capriati
  • People
  • World
  • Kids

• Truth is a nebulous thing. There are certain, definite truths, but the truth of our lives goes far beyond facts.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Truth

• I like going into a scene knowing that the script isn't quite finished, that there's something that isn't really going to reveal itself until something spontaneously occurs.

  

  Bennett Miller