Richard Branson Quotes

Nobody's ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there's some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.

Richard Branson

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PeopleMeSayingThinkAmericaPlay

You have a great result if the orchestra trusts the conductor, and the conductor trusts the orchestra.

Andris Nelsons

GreatResultYouOrchestraConductor

Most of my major roles have been to play characters that the audience does not initially like or warm up to and then they grow to like in spite of that.

Robert Picardo

GrowWarmPlayAudienceUpBeen

We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.

John Hope

TimeRiverBankCatfishComeWhale

The Earth forgives the previous year every year.

Robert Hass

YearEarthEveryForgivesPrevious

I think every movie I've made after 'Indiana Jones,' I've tried to make every single movie as if it was made by a different director, because I'm very conscious of not wanting to impose a consistent style on subject matter that is not necessarily suited to that style. So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject.

Steven Spielberg

TimeStyleEyeThinkNewMy Own

There's a lot of music at my fingertips that I can be influenced by. And just because I play a horn, I don't need to sound, or try to capture, what was happening before me. I can just respect it and learn from it.

Trombone Shorty

MusicRespectMeLearnI CanPlay

One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines.

Roger Ebert

FlawsPicturesCrimeMoreHuman

President Barack Obama was amazing. You know how you imagine it would be to meet a celebrity, and that person may actually have a halo around them or something? Well, he did! He was tall, and he had a halo!

Liza Koshy

AmazingYouPersonKnowMeetTall

Looking back at it now, it's almost overwhelming, the amount of work that went into writing 'Shine', and to come up with the ideas that we're doing now.

Joshua Ostrander

WorkIdeasShineLooking BackDoing

My worst subject in school was school, but it turns out I'm great at starting them.

Bob Goff

GreatSchoolWorstStartingOut

It's not the case that carbon dioxide drives temperatures. When you leave Ice Ages, it's the other way around: The temperatures go up first, and then carbon dioxide levels go up.

Piers Corbyn

IceYouGoWayFirstLeave

What I really wanted to do, actually, was stay home and be a mom and have some more kids.

Suzy Amis

HomeMomMoreStayKidsSome

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