Way Quotes - Page 647

For me, it [moviemaking] is about social relevance. I want to make a movie that has some type of relevance where as the audience can't help but relate it in some way, and to continue that conversation outside the theater. I want people saying "this happened to my father" or "this happened to me." That's what I want.

Even though [bullying] doesn't actually raise your stature, it might make you feel that way.

Writing in a lot of ways feels more like excavation than construction. It feels like you're uncovering this thing bit by bit, discovering what it is, instead of constructing it upwards.

The idea of literalism in the Bible is a very new phenomenon. In many ways, it's a product of the scientific revolution.

If the resistance is going to bring Trump down, it will require Democrats to follow the people, not the other way around. My hope is that the Democrats will realize where their power lies, and will start taking their cues from the people on the ground and not the other way.

Living in the present is the way to go.

I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.

The woman who loves always smells good.

And, there's clearly not going to be any outside help coming, anytime soon. These people are going to have to figure out some way to get out of this situation, and they're going to choose all sorts of crazy-ass strategies.

Part of the entrepreneurial thing is there are lots of ways to die.

...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees.

There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man.

I figured, 'If I ever get offered a chance to sign a deal, I'll only do it if I got to do it how I want.' So my contract is structured in such a way that I'm really protected.

You are always growing, so maybe the way that you bring the songs forward and translate them is more mature.

I have that language and that set of skills to step out of the way and make music the priority.

I have a good memory for certain things. And a very short memory for painful things - that's my favorite Martha Stewart quote, by the way.

Having your own store is one of the most immediate ways to connect with the customer, to really get to know her and develop a more intimate relationship.

art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.

I think that walking down the middle of the street with several thousand people who share your deepest beliefs is one of the best ways to take a walk.

Deirdre Maddon has an extraordinary, almost celestial way of telling a story. There are so many great writers now - although I also want to go back and read all of Dickens again.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

You have to simplify - there is no other way to reach a mass audience. And you have to feed them evidence of their own success to keep them motivated.

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.

Fame is a mind - a way of thinking about things. It's all in your mind.

I've been broke more than I've been rich. I like being in the middle way better.