Charles A. Lockwood Quotes

By all means, let someone else have Pearl Harbor.

Charles A. Lockwood

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• It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Connection
  • Mystery
  • Between

• The coolest part about 'God Made Girls' is you had all these different women writing it, so you had all these different perspectives in this song.

  

  RaeLynn
  • God
  • Different
  • Writing

• Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Want
  • Need

• I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Team
  • Going
  • Tough

• No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • May
  • She
  • Man

• People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • People
  • Think
  • Hate

• I think rock 'n' roll would become exponentially, considerably more difficult to perform past about 65.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Think
  • Past
  • Rock

• My heroes were all in the theatre.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Theatre
  • Heroes
  • Were

• Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship; you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Work
  • Love
  • Change

• All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Way
  • Positive
  • Profit

• We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • World
  • Nature
  • U.S.

• When I got on the set of 'Saving Private Ryan,' I discovered, to my amazement, that Steven Spielberg is a gamer.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Got
  • Gamer
  • Amazement

• I visited England immediately after I finished writing 'The Marrying Season,' before any editing or revisions.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Writing
  • Season
  • Editing

• My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that.

  

  Fay Wray
  • People
  • Different
  • Book

• My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Great
  • Character
  • Father

• Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Fire
  • Creativity
  • Intelligence

• The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Ideas
  • Genius

• With 140 words in Chinese, you really can write a novel. Most of Confucius’s sentences are only four words, so 140 words might take his whole life to write. And you can discuss the most profound ideas related to democracy, freedom, poetry.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Words

• I've always been interested in the news, but I've always been interested in what's popular. I've always had a little bit of a populist take on things. Which I know is interesting when you talk about Donald Trump.

  

  Jeff Zucker
  • Interesting
  • Popular
  • Trump

• What’s shocking is to see six-year-old children jump roping in the street at 2:00 a.m.-that’s shocking-a block away from drug dealers. Just to see that the gap in the circle is education, in my mind, primarily for young women, because it’s the young women that are raising the kids and that’s where the circle, I think, perpetuates itself.

  

  Jennifer Beals
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Children

• The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.

  

  Kate Capshaw
  • Nature
  • Story
  • Lovers

• The improvement efforts of other companies are misguided since they are aimed at achieving cost savings rather than being totally focused on improving the flow.

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Companies
  • Focused
  • Flow

• By all means, let someone else have Pearl Harbor.

  

  Charles A. Lockwood