Kevin Rahm Quotes

The industry has a very short memory of what's possible, and they like to typecast you.

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• I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - what makes people tick. I've also always been passionate about social issues and causes, and I wanted to make films that addressed important issues in very human terms.

  

  Barbara Kopple
  • People
  • Important
  • Think

• The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Process
  • Adventure
  • Miracle

• I know that I have probably an eight- to 10-year window in this league, and if I want to be what I say I want to be, then I have to commit myself 100 percent.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Window

• Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Truth
  • Myself
  • Blind

• I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Different
  • Reality
  • Me

• The fashion world is so interesting because it's always changing, but if you know yourself really well, despite of all the changes in the fashion trends, you know how to stay true to yourself.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • True
  • Interesting

• I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Great
  • Want
  • Death

• So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Good
  • Decision
  • Thought

• In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Impossible
  • Diversity

• Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Best
  • Ideas
  • Someone

• The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Life
  • Better
  • Working

• If I'm uncomfortable on stage, everybody can see it. I'm not very good at hiding it. I like long, loose jacket dresses - anything that I can literally have room to move in - not that I'm a very big dancer, but because sometimes I'm sitting down at the keyboard, and then sometimes I'm standing. It just has to feel good.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Good
  • Long
  • I Can

• The first year I was at NASA, I was only responsible for optical and ultraviolet astronomy. Frankly, there wasn't much else.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • First
  • Year
  • NASA

• Writing is a strange and solitary activity.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Writing

• Now it happened that Kanga had felt rather motherly that morning, and Wanting to Count Things — like Roo's vests, and how many pieces of soap there were left, and the two clean spots in Tigger's feeder.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Morning

• …the Malay word chium meant to plough the beloved’s face with one’s nose

  

  Anthony Burgess

• 'Cause when you got love, like we got love.I'm holding on to heaven, holding onto you.When you got one, like I got one.Anyway you looking, it's a hell of a view.Don't know where we're gonna be, but I know we're be sitting on top of the world.So keep hanging onto me.Yeah, don't you wanna be sitting on top of the world?Top of the world.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • World
  • Heaven

• Thought is something limitless and independent, and has been mixed with no thing but is alone by itself. ... What was mingled with it would have prevented it from having power over anything in the way in which it does. ... For it is the finest of all things and the purest.

  

  Anaxagoras
  • Power
  • Alone
  • Independent

• You can't live a truthful life without regret.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Live
  • Regret
  • Truthful

• It was because all we wanted was each other's constant love and attention and for no one else to receive that love and attention, which is a selfish and difficult place to be in a relationship. We were emotionally retarded, and that was the best we could do at the time.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Time
  • Love
  • Relationship

• One thing 'not right' on the 50th anniversary of the Selma marches is the sad fact that the Edmund Pettus Bridge hasn't been renamed the John Lewis Bridge.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Sad
  • Bridge
  • Anniversary

• Pizza certainly has its place in school meals, but equating it with broccoli, carrots and celery seriously undermines this nation's efforts to support children's health and their ability to learn because of better school nutrition.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Children
  • School
  • Support

• I didn't get into racing to make friends.

  

  Jimmie Johnson
  • Friends

• The industry has a very short memory of what's possible, and they like to typecast you.

  

  Kevin Rahm