No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.
I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.
Bill Nighy
Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.
George A. Smith
When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried other enemas.
Emo Philips
There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.
Greg Kinnear
Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
Harold Evans
I'm a sucker for sad disco pop.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.
George McGovern
I was really fascinated by politics. It always has been part of my view that politics really is a calling or you wouldn't go into it, because it's demanding and potentially has a toll on you and your family.
John Key
We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.
Doc Hastings
I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.
Francois Hollande
Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.
Famke Janssen
I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach.
Don Shula
I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time.
Anthony Weiner
Science is a self-sufficient activity.
Jonathan Miller
I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.
Brooke Shields
Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.
Terry Eagleton
Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.
George Burns
Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
P. J. O'Rourke
Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.
Dennis Potter
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Oscar Wilde
Maria is the best reason to come home.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them.
Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care.
Max Baucus
The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
Jimi Hendrix
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.
Tony Snow
The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.
Michael Shannon
The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.
Denzel Washington
Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One
If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.
Henry Reed
Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.
I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.
Ricky Skaggs
That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.
Charles Eastman
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