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Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes

Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: english
Birth: March 4, 1967

Topics

Family Art Myself Possibilities Way

Renditions before and since 9/11 share some basic features. They have been conducted lawfully, responsibly and with a clear and single purpose: Get terrorists off the street and gain intelligence on those still at large. Our detention and interrogation programs flow from the same inescapable logic.

Michael Hayden

Intelligence Purpose Logic Street

It would be better if only the old men fought the wars. Every country is the country of youth. When its youth dies, it dies with them.

Jean Giraudoux

Men Youth Better Country Old Would

Until we know how many women own businesses, we may under-invest in them as entrepreneurs and economic drivers.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Women Know Own May Economic Drivers

The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.

Robert Browning

Strength Sea Land Up Breaks Loaded

It was a fun ride. I've enjoyed my time on the ice and I've enjoyed more and more people getting interested in the game of hockey.

Ron Francis

Time Ride Fun People Game Hockey

I'd say 50 on men is like 33 on women in Hollywood. The standards - it's just the way we do our storytelling. And I hope it will change, because I think it's dumb.

Ron Livingston

Change Women Hope Men Think Dumb

By rationing in-person meetings, their stature is elevated to that of a rare treat. They become something to be savored, something special.

Jason Fried

Treat Meetings Special Become Rare

It is probable that England will look favorably upon the independence of the Philippines, for it will open their ports to her and afford greater freedom to her commerce.

Jose Rizal

Freedom Independence Look Will Open

If you just hold your cell phone for 30 seconds and think backwards through its production, you have the entire techno-industrial culture wrapped up there. You can't have that device without everything that goes with it.

Douglas Tompkins

Culture Cell Phone Think You Phone

I have never been a girlie girl and have always been a boys' girl with an equal amount of friends who were boys and girls.

Anushka Sharma

Girl Friends Never Always Equal Who

Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian communities there. And of course there were a lot of Russians.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

British Because Colonial Course Most

People are too keen to follow standard preconceptions of how organisations should work. All too often, we feel that we are unable to make changes and so hope that someone, somewhere in your organisation knows what we are doing and what the overall aim is.

Ricardo Semler

Work Hope People Feel Someone Doing