Kevin Spacey Quotes

You can't turn a "no" to a "yes" without a "maybe" in between.

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• I know what it takes, and you have to fight for yourself and what you believe in.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Believe
  • Yourself
  • Fight

• It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Good
  • You
  • Week

• I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some big mistakes globally with how we're developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Think
  • Mistakes
  • Guilt

• I'm happy to admit that I'm a hopeless optimist.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Happy
  • Admit
  • Hopeless

• 'Besides-we all know guns don’t kill people,do they?''No, it’s the small metal projectiles that generally do the killing,' Cahuella said, smiling.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • People
  • Small

• We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100 friends and family, and within a week we had 100,000 people sign the petition.

  

  Joan Blades
  • People
  • Family
  • Friends

• Characters are born from necessity.

  

  Christopher Paolini

• I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Up
  • Music
  • She

• It is always so, I guess, validating when you meet somebody that you esteem -- and then they turn out to be everything [you thought] and more.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Turns
  • Esteem

• Gotta get myself a million, gonna turn that into a billion.

  

  Nelly
  • Reality
  • Turns
  • Millions

• Joy and sadness come by turns.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Joy
  • Sadness
  • Turns

• Our needs are our greatest asset. It turns out I've learned to give all the things that I need.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Giving
  • Needs
  • Turns

• Anything that I do is something that I'm passionate about and really believe in, no matter how it turns out.

  

  Luke Grimes
  • Believe
  • Matter
  • Passionate

• You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Sun
  • Stills
  • Shine

• When I fall in love I take my time There's no need to hurry when I'm making up my mind You can turn off the sun but I'm still gonna shine and I'll tell you why.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• Some make the world go round; others watch it turn.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • People
  • World
  • Watches

• Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • People
  • Life
  • Question

• You gotta turn with the times, or the times gonna turn on you.

  

  Earl Stevens
  • Turns
  • Turn-on

• There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.

  

  Stephen Stills Buffalo Springfield
  • Player
  • Turns

• The fame which bids fair to live the longest resembles that which Horace attributes to Marcellus, whose progress he compares to the silent, imperceptible growth of a tree.

  

  William Benton Clulow
  • Growth
  • Fame
  • Compare

• I think the category of perpetual adolescence, it's a new thing, and it's a dangerous thing. Adolescence is a pretty glorious concept. It's about intentionally transitioning from childhood to adulthood. Being stuck in adolescence - that's a hell. Peter Pan is a dystopia, and we forget that.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
  • Childhood
  • Forget
  • Adolescence

• The single biggest reason why the vast majority of people go nowhere in life is because they don't or won't take risks. They take the easy way out, the path of least resistance. You don't make it big that way. Ever.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Risks
  • Resistance
  • Majority

• I wanted to do the comic strip. I tried to get it syndicated, and I sent some examples to a syndication company, and they sent me a rejection letter! I wasn't smart enough at the time to realize you shouldn't let rejection letters stop you. I thought that rejection letter meant I was not allowed to be a cartoonist in this world, so I put the rejection letter down and said, well, I'll be a stand-up comedian.

  

  Brian Regan
  • World
  • Smart
  • Realizing

• You can't turn a "no" to a "yes" without a "maybe" in between.

  

  Kevin Spacey
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