Robert Redford Quotes

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

Robert Redford

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 18, 1936

Topics

ArtPoliticsSoulHonorThings

I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law?

Jerry Yang

HistoryCuriousLawThoughtWhat If

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

John Bunyan

WordsEasyAirHighMarkUnderstood

All the working-class people could feel a Malcolm X. They could hear Malcolm X, and two weeks later they could whisper back what he said. Verbatim. They could remember the way he put it, and he put it so well.

John Henrik Clarke

PeopleFeelRememberBackSaidWay

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.

John Irving

KnowDamnHimBackgroundJustHe

That's something a lot of folks don't know about me - I'm pretty darn funny.

Michael Jai White

FunnyMeKnowPrettySomethingDarn

We definitely want to make sure that what we are making is something that we are proud of and something that we are inspired to write.

Johnny Christ

ProudWantWriteInspiredSomething

The fact that biological, or 'natural' rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art.

Steven Levy

WorkArtFashionInterestingHelp

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me - to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That's normally how I perform. That's how I am.

Steven Wright

TeacherMyselfSchoolI AmMeFace

When you're in elementary school, you get these amazing assignments, like to come up with your own animal, come up with your own city, come up with your own planet, what do the people look like; you're very much encouraged to be as imaginative as possible.

Tony DiTerlizzi

SchoolAnimalPeopleCityAmazing

I think everyone's against abortion.

Rupert Murdoch

ThinkAbortionEveryoneAgainst

I finished my first novel - it was around 300 pages long - when I was 16. Wrote one more before I got out of high school, then wrote the first Lincoln Perry novel when I was 19. It didn't sell, but I liked the character and I knew the world so I tried what was, in my mind, a sequel. Wrote that when I was 20, and that one made it.

Michael Koryta

CharacterSchoolMindWorldLong

Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.

Mitt Romney

LearningSportsChildhoodStartYou

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