Kevin Costner Quotes

When I see my children, and when I see the people who value me, I know how lucky I am.

Kevin Costner

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• As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Home
  • House

• The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Men
  • Women
  • Problem

• I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Think
  • English

• My health is fine.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Health
  • Fine

• We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Government
  • Big
  • Bigger

• War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Political
  • Military

• We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Time
  • Support
  • Rules

• Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • World
  • Think
  • Problems

• Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Souls
  • Corporations
  • Treason

• Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Sister

• There's been a gap between perception and reality, the perception being that California is on the cutting edge of gun safety legislation when, in fact, there are a number of areas where we have fallen behind.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Reality
  • Cutting
  • Gun

• When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.

  

  Imelda May
  • Sun
  • Mad
  • Heard

• When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • People
  • Character
  • Chance

• I don't remake any movie, whether old or of other language.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Movie
  • Language
  • Old

• If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Women
  • Support
  • Woman

• New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • New
  • Construction
  • Glass

• Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • People
  • Action
  • Attention

• Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Bridge
  • Ice

• The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals. The choices they made were real. They mattered.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Great
  • Real
  • History

• I wasn't being followed around by paparazzi all the time. I was able to be a kid and spend that time with my family and not grow up too quickly.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• One falls in and out of love, but when one loves that is an entirely different matter, for that lasts through life and beyond, and is a rare thing.

  

  Betty Neels
  • Life
  • Different
  • Fall In Love

• People often refer to a creative ability as a 'gift', and, of course, it is, in that, if I had sat down and logically tried to work out who I was and what I should do, I would never have come up with the idea of writing. It was already there, gratis, a given - a gift.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.

  

  Louis Malle
  • Work

• When I see my children, and when I see the people who value me, I know how lucky I am.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • People
  • Children
  • Value