Charles Bronson Quotes

Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.

Charles Bronson

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• The correlation of quality of life and cost of energy is huge.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Quality

• If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Strength
  • Determination

• I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Obsessed
  • Proportion
  • Perceived

• Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Truth
  • Imagination
  • Meaning

• I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.

  

  Iman
  • Night
  • Myself
  • Find

• If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Will
  • Prosperity
  • Far

• If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Happy
  • Respect
  • Audience

• Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • You
  • Sometimes
  • Jump

• It simply isn't acceptable for the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, which amass data by the terabyte, to say, 'Don't worry, your information's safe with us, as all sorts of rules protect you' - when all evidence suggests otherwise.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Worry
  • Information
  • Rules

• A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Genius
  • Himself

• My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Father
  • Name
  • Grandfather

• It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Good
  • Me
  • Reputation

• The thing is, one in three women in the Western world will end up having an abortion, but they never talk about it. When you keep silent about that stuff, it is because you are embarrassed by the societal distaste of the topic.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Up
  • World
  • Women

• I just think that pick-up lines in general are horrible. None of them work.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Up
  • Work
  • Think

• You never know what's going to happen. In a game where you're down by 20, you're still trying to win the game.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Trying
  • Game
  • Win

• I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Life
  • Time
  • Enjoy

• The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Friends
  • Parents
  • Best

• While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.

  

  Naoto Kan
  • Great
  • Power
  • Taken

• I've done so much theater, and yet I never had an experience like 'The Normal Heart.' We could feel the reaction of the audience every night. It was visceral.

  

  Jim Parsons
  • Heart
  • Done
  • Experience

• When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the amount of dark energy fits our biological make-up. If the amount of dark energy were substantially different from what we've measured, the environmental conditions would be inhospitable to our form of life.

  

  Brian Greene
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• When I'm getting ready for a movie, let's just say my diet is 'The Antisocial Diet.' I don't go to restaurants. I don't eat what I really want to eat. I don't eat much. I eat small things frequently. Lots of protein and greens. And I don't eat with people, because there's a tendency to get social and then to overeat.

  

  Jason Statham
  • People
  • Movie
  • Small

• Certain foods no longer agree with me. If I eat French fries, I might feel sick to my stomach.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Sick

• One can hope to be like Julie Christie, and with a bit of luck might be able to, but you couldn't hope to be like Rita Hayworth.

  

  Suzy Kendall
  • Hope
  • Like
  • To Be

• Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.

  

  Charles Bronson