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Amy Heckerling Quotes

I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies, and as soon as I was able to get a subway pass, when I was 14, I joined the Museum of Modern Art and was there all weekend watching old movies.

Amy Heckerling

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: May 7, 1954

Topics

Art Youth Weekend Museum Movies Old

I was a Marine for 41 years, and it wasn't long enough. We enjoy putting on that uniform.

Jim Mattis

Enough Enjoy Long Uniform Years

The crucial thing in any work of any kind is that it must be a gift - the reader must possess it even more than the person who wrote it. It must be given completely.

Jesse Ball

Work Gift Person Kind More Must

I saw my dad doing it and thought to myself, 'I can do that.' I would be backstage watching him and running around the country with him singing to children. He would sing songs that taught children really good morals: like, 'Teaching Peace' was a song he used to sing to kids a lot.

Andy Grammer

Good Children Myself Peace Singing

My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?

Andy Kaufman

Mother Age Sad Brother Me Window

The most important thing in the world is family and love.

John Wooden

Family Love World Important Most

When we first created the Lyft community, we wanted to make cities feel smaller and more connected by bringing people together through transportation. In 20 months since we launched, we've seen drivers and passengers redefine the true meaning of community through Lyft in countless ways.

John Zimmer

Community Together People Meaning

There are many good ideas out there that never get an audience.

Steve Jurvetson

Good Ideas Never Audience Out Get

I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that. Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me.

Stokely Carmichael

Time I Am People Me Black Place

The war broke out, and I wanted to do something to aid my country in a time of crisis. I was too tall for the WACs and WAVES, but eventually joined the OSS and set out into the world looking for adventure.

Julia Child

Time Adventure War World Looking

I'm trying to stay humble because if I don't keep producing results, all of this goes away, so I want to focus on the people close to me - my family and my team; they mean everything to me.

Denis Shapovalov

Family Humble Focus People Me Team

In the case of the Web, each of us has slightly more access to a mass audience - a few more people slide through the door - but Facebook is finally a crude, personal multimedia conglomerate machine, personal nation-state machine, reality-show machine. New gadgets alter social patterns, new media eclipse old ones, but the pyramid never goes away.

David Shields

People Door Media New Personal More

In society, we have these unspoken rules of conduct, these 'shoulds.' Even though we pride ourselves on being a democracy, there are all these ways we say you 'should' behave. But what if you're living your life by the 'shoulds' and you're not really living your life?

Chris Noth

Life Democracy Society Pride You