Kevin Costner Quotes

A good idea is something like an emotion, you just can't keep it in.

Kevin Costner

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• I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.

  

  Walter Anderson
  • Life
  • Attitude
  • Responsible

• NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Hope
  • Law
  • Ocean

• Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Game
  • Excitement
  • Intensity

• I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • People
  • Pain
  • Very

• I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Writing
  • Private

• I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Personal

• When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Fun
  • Action
  • Comedy

• Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Alien
  • Seen
  • Whatever

• I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Golf

• I didn't like my hair and makeup one time on a photo shoot, and my publicist told me, 'You should just be happy with it - they haven't had a black girl on the cover since forever.' She's no longer my publicist.

  

  Zendaya
  • Time
  • She
  • Happy

• People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • Me
  • Responsibility

• I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Want
  • Man
  • Serious

• Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • People
  • World
  • Political

• Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Everybody
  • Somebody
  • Anybody

• Sure, if you're a well to do family, you always have the option of sending your children to private schools where teachers spend less time disciplining kids and more time teaching them. However, this option is beyond the reach of most households. And this is what makes school vouchers such a promising solution for lower and middle income families.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Children
  • Family

• I learned that it's OK to be stubborn about your craft, and it's OK to demand excellence from the industry.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Excellence
  • Craft
  • Stubborn

• The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • You
  • Understand
  • First

• My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and the actor comes after that. If she likes something that I am wearing, she tells me, and if she doesn't, she still makes it a point to let me know.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Actor

• You have a bigger view, of something bigger than you, and you have to view that and take that in mind. At times you feel like despair rises up over hope, then other times you feel hopeful again.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Mind
  • Hope
  • View

• Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life.

  

  Thomas Kinkade
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Balance

• The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Value
  • Idea

• When we gaze at a star in the Milky Way which is 50,000 light-years away from our sun, we are looking back 50,000 years in time." "The idea is much too big for my little head." "The only way we can look out into space, then, is to look back in time. We can never know what the universe is like now. We only know what it was like then. When we look up at a star that is thousands of light-years away, we are really traveling thousands of years back in the history of space.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • History
  • Universe
  • Idea

• Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

  

  Paul Rand
  • Idea
  • Simplicity
  • Expectation

• A good idea is something like an emotion, you just can't keep it in.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Idea
  • Emotion