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Ken Adam Quotes

It takes courage to stay young, to make your enthusiasms work for you. Don't let anyone drag you down.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: designer
Nationality: german
Birth: February 5, 1921

Topics

Work Courage You Down Young Stay

Sometimes literary critics review the book they wanted you to write, not the book you wrote, and that's very irksome.

Book You Sometimes Write Critics

When you look at the world, the world isn't just one palette. It's a beautiful rainbow, and why not have someone to represent that rainbow?

Beautiful Rainbow World Someone Look

Did you happen to catch the film I did between 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Kong?' It was a nice little Jennifer Garner comedy, '13 Going on 30,' and I play her boss. In my big scene, I get to moonwalk - pretty well, I thought - to Michael Jackson.

Boss Thought Comedy You Play Nice

I looked into corruption in Afghanistan through a work called 'Payback' and impersonated a police officer, set up a fake checkpoint on the street in Kabul and stopped cars, but instead of asking them for a bribe, offered them money and apologized on behalf of the Kabul Police Department.

Work Money Police Fake Corruption

Occasionally, I'll direct if there's something I feel strongly about. Having done it has whetted my appetite to do it again, but I don't feel an internal pressure to direct. It certainly will make me a better producer, because I'm more empathetic; I really appreciate now what the director is going through every day.

Stanley R. Jaffe

Day Me Appreciate Pressure Better

I played volleyball for the greater part of my life, since I was 11 or 12 years.

Life My Life Years Greater Part

In the face of love, everyone is equal. Let everyone have the freedom to love and to pursue their happiness. I am Tsai Ing-wen, and I support marriage equality.

Love Marriage Happiness Freedom I Am

When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.

Shirley MacLaine

Knowledge Eyes Experience Soul Child

Fighting causes you to face life head on, because you could end up seriously getting hurt, and you could hurt somebody else. It causes both people to face the reality that we are fragile beings, but it doesn't mean we can't enjoy ourselves in the process and punch each other in the face and have a good time.

Life Good Time People Face Hurt

The outrages surrounding the Benghazi attack involve administration action - or lack of action - before, during, and after the attack.

Action Attack Administration Before

People at risk of 'honour'-based violence require long-term support, often years past the closure of a case, for continuing culturally-sensitive psychological support and the development of long-term protection plans.

Past Support People Violence Plans

I think politics is a dirty game. We've seen the sides that they take; we've seen the commentary they have had on my father.

Donald Trump, Jr.

Father Politics Game Think Dirty

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