A. O. Scott Quotes

A movie is a miracle, even if it turns out to be a disappointment.

The comics I've talked to have varied styles as stand-ups, but the throughline is that it's the most intense thing they've ever done.

Why would you go anyplace without your iPad? This is the greatest invention. When it gets a little more power, my God. It's like my office.

When you've got kids, it's a big undertaking. It's like doing four movies in a row.

I said [to my mom], "I want to go to the parachute regiment." She said, "Whew, that's tough. But okay, I understand."

My Republican colleagues say, Let's do the cuts first. The Democrats say, Let's do spending first. I'd like to do both simultaneously.

Have the government get out of the way.

The sum of all the current regulations presents ever increasing hurdles.

I would not vote for the Democratic candidate. I could not vote for Donald Trump. I would therefore have to write in someone. I could get behind any other Republican candidate, any of them.

I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.

War is not some sort of Nintendo video game.

If people don't like the history, I'm sorry.

Iraq has not been disarmed 100 percent [but] in terms of what they [Iraqis] have accomplished there are no meaningful weapons or weapons production capability in Iraq today.

The only way an Iraqi biological agent would kill you is if it landed on your head.

It has been estimated that 80 percent of the oil illegally smuggled out of Iraq under oil for food ended up in the United States.

There has been no case made - based on anything other than speculation - that Iraq poses a threat.

The Iraqi people are some of the warmest people you'll meet in your life. They are extremely receptive to strangers. Their hospitality is immense.

I didn't promote war when I was a weapons inspector.

The U.S. has perverted the U.N. weapons process by using it as a tool to justify military actions, falsely so. ... The U.S. was using the inspection process as a trigger for war.

I'd like to think that the best bunker buster is a diplomat.

Iraq has a tremendous amount of history.

History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government.

I don't disagree with anything I've ever said. Why in God's name would I disagree with something I've said?

We are the ones responsible to determine whether the war that our marines, soldiers and airmen are fighting in is worth the cause.

I was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history. I was the only one who was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history.

If you want to play the game of truth, I'll tell the truth, and the truth will burn.

Sanctions aren't about weapons of mass destruction. People need to understand that.

I can generate attention quickly.

The United States is the laughingstock of the world.

I haven't exaggerated anything, I've stuck to the facts.

I think you have a responsibility to the people you're making movies with, and I take that very seriously. I don't want to let up and I don't want to let down.

The unexpected may annoy us, but may also wake us up.

We have a Bill of Rights, which protects each of us from a bullying society, but no Bill of Responsibilities, which would oblige us to answer to the needs of others.

The only durable community is the one that embraces the whole planet, wild and tame . . .

It shocks me when young kids still say, 'I want to do a magazine,'

In a life where waking hours are draped in the costume of horrid nightmare, where reality has suddenly become questionable, it's easy to be scared by dreams.

Senator Sanders, of course, has campaigned for Hillary Clinton. But what about his legions of supporters?

Reading will put you into the minds and hearts of others. It might help you understand why other people do what they do sometimes.

I take Charb's point, but at some point has Charlie Hebdo been trying to have it both ways because some of what they do is not funny.

Almost every continent in the world, including our own, has refugees. But how often when we hear the word do we pause to remind ourselves what being a refugee means?

One of the reasons we think this market will start to run out of gas at some point is that you've essentially created as much gold from straw as you can from this financial alchemy

AR-15s, in particular, are often called America's gun. They're some of the most popular rifles in the country, especially when it comes to sports shooting.

Janis Joplin didn't just sing a song, she took it over. She swallowed it whole, then sent it back through her gut and her heart.

Adoption is rewarding. But the process, as we have already detailed in some particulars, can be expensive, exhausting, and hard to sustain on a dream, much less a whim.

Murder is easy. Comedy is hard.

I've always been passionate about what I do and want to do it well, ... My wife says she's a widow to the computer.

I know end might be near as this is only day of my adulthood I’ve seen my mother and she hasn’t asked, ‘Why that shirt?’

Believe me, those great death bed speeches are written ahead of time.

Imagine the talented love-child of Andr Previn and Lucille Ball.

Charlie Hebdo were the licensed anarchist clowns of the society.