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

• 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

• 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

• Worthwhile books trouble our complacency, sharpening our minds and senses. Some are dangerous, and they, too, must be published.

  

  Peter Mayer
  • Complacency

• When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Nature
  • Working
  • Paint

• I remember Secretary of State [George] Shultz one day saying that America is an economic model for the world. I replied to him that America represents 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 30 percent of the world's energy. What if everyone in the world lives like Americans? Where do we get the energy for this standard of living?

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Remember
  • Standards
  • Percent

• I laughed derisively. "For goodness' sake, don't start gargling now. This is serious." "I was laughing." "Oh, were you? Well, I'm glad to see you taking it in this merry spirit." "Derisively," I explained.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Serious

• 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