Alex Gibney Quotes

I'm a sports junkie, and I am interested in athletic will - how you exceed the expectations of your own performance when it counts to deliver something beyond yourself so that you can win.

Alex Gibney

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SportsYourselfI AmWinPerformance

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.

Joan Didion

PowerGuiltyDifficultPossessions

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.

Maya Angelou

GoodMusicBestPoetryBlackFind

Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.

Meshell Ndegeocello

WorldViolenceWayMoreYesBegets

As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something.

John Stossel

FreePersonDyingTakeSomething

Don't be anything you're not. Be yourself. And people will either celebrate that or say, 'It's not for me.'

Alyssa Edwards

YourselfPeopleMeCelebrateYou

When I read the news that Wonder Woman was going to be resurrected for a blockbuster movie in 2016, 'Batman vs. Superman', it made me excited - and anxious. Would the producers give her a role as fierce as her origins - and maybe some shoulder straps - or would she just be cartoon eye candy?

Amanda Foreman

WomanMeEyeFierceWonderNews

I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing percussion very young, because I had some uncles who were musicians and all my aunts were singers.

Ronaldinho

FamilyMusicHappyMusiciansHouse

I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.

Mike Leigh

GoodThinkActorGood ActorGoing

I chose to not wear a wire and tape people. I chose to not get immunity until - were accepted, whatever - until the independent counsel's office was comfortable with what I said was the truth.

Monica Lewinsky

TruthPeopleSaidIndependentOffice

I'm into all things German. Everything that I own is German. As far as cars go, anyway.

Jason Statham

GoEverythingOwnThingsFarAnyway

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.

Douglas William Jerrold

RespectManMoonLookNewWill

When you've learned to love yourself, you get all the things that come with that. Friends, passion, success.

Christen Press

LoveSuccessPassionYourselfYou

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