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Neill Blomkamp Quotes

On one hand, I think people are destined for something incredible if we don't wipe ourselves out, but I think we're going to wipe 90 percent of ourselves out.

Neill Blomkamp

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: south african
Birth: September 17, 1979

Topics

People Think Hand Out Going Percent

I always understood my ancestry, like that of so many others in the Gulf Coast, to be a tangle of African slaves, free men of color, French and Spanish immigrants, British colonists, Native Americans - but in what proportion, and what might that proportion tell me about who I thought I was?

Jesmyn Ward

Men Me Free Color Thought Others

It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

Jerry Della Femina

Win Back Hollywood Dying Us Wanting

I believe in all of these Irish myths, like leprechauns. Not the pot of gold, not the Lucky Charms leprechauns. But maybe was there something in the traditional sense? I believe that this stuff came from somewhere other than people's imaginations.

Megan Fox

People Gold Believe I Believe Lucky

You can get fixed ideas, and it can get restrictive. So, I try to put myself in a precarious position.

Merce Cunningham

Myself Ideas You Try Position Get

I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music.

John Tesh

Music World Performance Song Worship

A lot of people misunderstand what is Strong Style. Hard hits? Stiff? I don't think so. Strong Style is a kind of philosophy.

Shinsuke Nakamura

Style People Strong Think Philosophy

I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.

Dinah Shore

Fire Me World Bridges Burn Never

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

Chuck Jones

People Comedy Real Real People Farce

If I have a golden touch, I'd also say that I have the opposite of whatever a golden touch is, because I've had a lot of things fail. I think part of the experience of being successful is that you have to have a lot of stuff not work.

Brad Feld

Work Experience Think You Say Touch

Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead: some, overcivilised, fondly suppose that there never was romance: a poet tells us that romance is unrecognised though really present: but scientists can meet him daily, walking at large and undisguised in the world.

Archibald Hill

Daily People World Present Walking

I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.

Aretha Franklin

Community Food Church Detroit Donate

I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother.

Alice Walker

Good Mother Daughter Time School Go