Gus Van Sant Quotes

I had never had a positive leading character - somebody that wasn't an antihero, or who wasn't more of a guy that you're supposed to be on the side of.

Gus Van Sant

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PositiveCharacterYouMoreNever

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

CharacterMenThinkNothingMore

That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.

Joe Torre

ReputationThinkBeing HonestHonest

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

John F. Kennedy

CityEfficiencyWashingtonCharm

A couple of back operations didn't cure anything, but instead, things got worse and worse and worse.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

BackOperationsAnythingThingsCure

A budget should be judged by whether it creates a foundation for the success of American working families striving to buy a house, or to send their kids to college, or to save a little for retirement and, if they're lucky, a vacation.

Jeff Merkley

SuccessVacationCollegeFoundation

I want a news service that tells me what no one knows but is true nonetheless.

Michael Crichton

ServiceMeNewsWantTrueKnows

Non-commercial general aviation flights serve as a lifeline to thousands of communities where airlines do not fly, while contributing a fraction of total U.S. air traffic congestion.

Mike Pompeo

FlyTrafficAviationAirServe

Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.

Jules Verne

GreatIndiaLandMilesSpreadKnows

For documentaries, I think streaming plays an amazing role, but it's a problem when the one service you initially relied on to have an incredible buffet - 'Come and see a lot of world cinema, and the lives of ordinary people as well' - all of a sudden is narrowed down until it's just gladiator after gladiator - and bloodlust.

Debra Granik

ServicePeopleAmazingWorldThink

I always wonder about people's history and their lives, especially people that are a little bit more distant, who obviously have had some kind of a thing, and you know there's some reason why they're not able to connect. It's not because they don't want to. They don't have the ability.

Annette Bening

HistoryPeopleYouWonderKnowKind

Belief creates the actual fact.

William James

InspirationalBeliefFactActual

Life is, and should be, a little hard. Getting punched in the face or getting an occasional concussion will probably happen to us all at some point in our lives. We can handle it.

Peter Berg

LifeFaceWillHardHappenLittle

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