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Ethan Coen Quotes

When you're younger, you kind of assume you'll be fine at whatever. Then you get older, and you're either unsuccessful and you wonder why, or you're successful and you wonder why.

Ethan Coen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: September 21, 1957

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You Wonder Kind Why Whatever Get

Slow down and think about the lessons of the elders.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

Think Slow Down Elders Lessons

A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.

Simon Sinek

Friendship Friend Experience Bond

I think that opera in Europe is 30 years ahead of America. There is a broader range of material presented to the public. They value contemporary opera.

Robert Wilson

Value Think America Ahead Opera

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

Ronald Reagan

Best Yourself Surround Yourself You

Music was my salvation, the thing I loved most and did best. Whatever was fun, I'd go do that.

Roy Clark

Music Best Fun Loved Go Salvation

For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it's all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that's the definition of spectacle.

Diane Paulus

Ocean People Me Look Edge Lost

I was always the guy who made jokes and ribbed people at parties. After I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts I got sidetracked into clubs and started doing comedy.

Don Rickles

People American Comedy Doing Jokes

Doing interviews about my films really bothers me sometimes, because I have to speak directly and clearly about things I've intended to keep ambiguous, and in a way, I feel like I'm betraying my film.

Asghar Farhadi

Me Speak Feel Doing Sometimes Way

Nobody owes anything to anybody. You are your authentic self to whom and when you choose to be, and if you don't know somebody, then why would you explain to them how you live your life?

Sean Hayes

Life Live Self You Choose Know

In L.A. everyone is in the entertainment industry, so you're forced to think about work.

Seann William Scott

Work Think You Entertainment Forced

The amygdala is like a point guard in the emotional part of your middle brain. When it is overwhelmed, it hijacks you away from being able to access your upper rational brain and think and assess what to do. It essentially disables your ability to think.

Mark Goulston

Brain Think You Overwhelmed Ability

Once you learn to choose your belongings properly, you will be left with only the amount that fits perfectly in the space you own.

Marie Kondo

Space Learn You Choose Will Own