Very Quotes
I turned down five million dollars from a lobbyist who wanted to put up $5m for my campaign, a very strong lobbyist. I said, I don't want your money.
I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.
My mother's a staunch feminist, so I grew up with very strong feminist messages. As a result, I battled her in my teenage years because my image of being a man was a deformed one.
I have a very strong, probably slightly aggressive personality, and so that just ends up coming out regardless of what I try to do.
It is a very powerful feeling to know that my work is affecting people and to hear it from them directly.
My past is very interesting, and I treasure it, but to write about it, it's just not on my radar.
My personality is very good for nurturing. I'm very empathetic to my artists. You speak to anyone who's worked with me and they'll say, "Oh yeah, Steve's great. He doesn't have the ego."
My ideology was, if I just make very happy music, very happy music, then people will forget about whatever their problems are. I will forget about my problems.
I enjoy my life. I think I have a very good life. And I think I'm very satisfied with the direction of my career and just my lifestyle and everything like that. So I wouldn't change a single thing.
We obviously can't compete with the big clubs trying to sign world class stars, but we've already identified some very good players and we'll see what happens.
A photograph is a photograph. When I am making a picture I am just interested in making a very interesting photograph. I don't care where it's going to go.
It's a hard thing to explain to other people because it sounds very superficial and nepotistic, but doing the interview is actually a very deep, dream-fulfilling aspect of relationship.
Children are very strong and independent characters and can come up with more interesting things than Marlon Brando, and it's sometimes very difficult to direct or order them to do something.
I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good producer because if I believed in something I'd be able to protect it.
If in our Saturday pursuits we're far from God's presence, we're not in very good shape to worship Him on Sunday.
I will not back down from defending America. I got elected on defense of our country. I keep my campaign promises, and our citizens will be very happy when they see the result.
The cleverest trick of the Devil is that nobody believes in him. It. Her. Well, we have been very stupid.
Somewhere, there, is an analogy, in a small way, if you have the patience for it. But I guess it isn't a very good anecdote. I'm better at animal stories.
And there was a very famous man called Michael Powell, who probably is the greatest director all round, except possibly a couple of men.
It is a sign of the times, and not a very good sign, that these days it is necessary - and not only necessary but urgent - to interest minds in the fate of Mind, that is to say, in their own fate.
Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
I have a very good relationship with myself. My favourite quote is, "What you think about me is none of my business."
Hacking is very interesting. Once they hack, if you don't catch them in the act, you're not going to catch them.
My parents were not pushy or anything like that. I think my mom was still expecting me to be an astronaut, but now she is very happy that I'm not doing that.
I think Shambhala can be a very strong force as a social example of how you can try to live a life balanced in terms of both the spiritual and the secular.
The relationship between Israel and the United States is a bond of - it’s just a very powerful bond. It was, it is, and will be and will continue to be.
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo
The people who gave up their humanity to save their planet was always very interesting to me.
I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme.
DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.
Acting is a different discipline. On stage I'm free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.
No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
Google understood that if you're just a search engine, people assume you're a very, very good search engine.
We're not going to let our companies be raided by other countries where we lose all our jobs, we don't make our product anymore. It's very sad.
Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
I'm not rebellious, but I am very strong-willed. I know what I believe in, and I know what I think is right.
On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.
I think that it is very good for people to talk about their paranormal experiences and share stories about things that they cannot explain.
I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me.
I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.
Deep down, Erikson wants profoundly to be respected and admired - and very deep down he wants to be left alone.
Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.