Lenny Abrahamson Quotes

Delusion is not good; better to be realistic and then surprise yourself if you're lucky.

Lenny Abrahamson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: November 30, 1966

Topics

GoodYourselfSurpriseBetterYou

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

John Cleese

MoneyThinkForceThingsMostOnce

Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts and unlocked bikes and wheat-grass shots and cereal dispensers and Haribo Gummi Bears and heated toilet seats and herb gardens and parking lots with cords hanging to plug in electric cars.

Maureen Dowd

EyesBlueEnoughLooksInnocent

While some of the critics are voicing legitimate concerns about the merits of a system of academic benchmarks, Common Core is frequently a straw man for the frustrations conservatives have with the federal government.

Sonny Perdue

ManGovernmentCriticsSystemStraw

I don't have a problem with the stories saying I'm skinny at all.

Trinny Woodall

SayingProblemSkinnyStories

'One More Summer' is one of those songs that I think will go over really well.

Tom Dumont

ThinkSummerGoWillMoreOver

There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there by chance.

Roger Penrose

PurposeChanceUniverseSaySense

But I have the satisfaction, at the same time, to reflect that the impression to be made depends upon the consistency of the charge and the motives of the prosecutors.

Robert Walpole

TimeConsistencySatisfactionSame

I still can't spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words.

Drew Barrymore

WordsI CanOutAnythingStillBust

The world, when you look at it, it just can't be random. I mean, it's so different than the vast emptiness that is everything else, and even all the other planets we've seen, at least in our solar system, none of them even remotely resemble the precious life-giving nature of our own planet.

Chris Hadfield

NatureSpaceRandomWorldYouLook

But let me tell you something. Gloria Steinem never helped me out; Larry Flynt did.

Courtney Love

MeYouNeverOutTellSomething

When I was ten, I caught glandular fever and had to have a year off school. My parents arranged for a tutor to keep me on track with my studies.

Anne Sebba

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I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.

Peter Singer

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