What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don't want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here's the epiphany scene and then the movie's over.
Paul Feig
FunnyPurposeYouKnowDoneWant
I don't really consider myself a black man in Hollywood. I live in Brooklyn... and on purpose.
Jeffrey Wright
LiveMyselfManPurposeBlack
Unless a piece really said something, I had no interest in it. I have got to know that I have served some purpose here.
Cicely Tyson
PurposeKnowSaidSomethingHere
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
EducationPurposePeopleCommon
The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.
P. J. O'Rourke
SportsPurposePeopleEvenBore
In their efforts to discredit human freedom, the Putinites denounce the sins that may occur under the reign of liberty with the same ardor, the same sincerity, and the same purpose that animated their Soviet forebears.
Robert Zubrin
FreedomPurposeLibertySincerity
Any time you use military force, you have got to have a clear purpose that military forces can achieve.
Richard N. Haass
TimePurposeYouAchieveMilitary
The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.
Neal Boortz
PurposeGovernmentPeoplePartyEarn
Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fear, into a future, not only free of fear, but full of hope.
Andrew von Eschenbach
FearFutureHopePurposeFreeTurn
I think about rodeo every day. I miss it. It's what gave me purpose.
Brady Jandreau
DayPurposeMeThinkEvery DayMiss
My purpose in public address and in speech is really encapsulated in three C's: clear, concise, correct. No overblowing rhetoric or anything like that. As simple as possible: clear, concise, correct.
Bob Sheppard
SimplePurposeSpeechThreePossible
Prancing around on stage is not the entire purpose of my life.
Grace Slick
LifePurposeMy LifeStageAround
In nerve-free multicellular organisms, the relationships of the cells to each other can only be of a chemical nature. In multicellular organisms with nerve systems, the nerve cells only represent cells like any others, but they have extensions suited to the purpose which they serve, namely the nerves.
Otto Loewi
NaturePurposeRelationshipsOthers
I wouldn't do really gratuitous nudity. When I was in my late teens, you'd read stuff and be like, 'That character serves no purpose except being naked', so that would not be something I'd want to do. It's pointless for me.
Ruth Bradley
CharacterPurposeMeYouLateWant
During the past 30 years, European governments have provided more than $15 billion in the form of low- and no-cost loans to Airbus for the specific purpose of developing new aircraft lines.
Norm Dicks
PastPurposeNewMoreYearsLow
Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.
Nelson Mandela
WisdomCommunityPurposeMeResult
My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.
Andrei Tarkovsky
LivePurposePeopleHelpSometimes
There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest.
Ari Fleischer
PurposeMountainInformationEvidence
Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced.
George Will
LifeRespectPurposeBaseballLaw
One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.
Nassau William Senior
PurposeGovernmentWorstRightWould
For some reason, I always thought I was special. And for some reason, I always thought that I had a purpose in life: that I was supposed to contribute to the world.
Rosie Perez
LifePurposeWorldThoughtSpecial
In an age when many of our citizens casually reveal information about themselves in social media wildly beyond anything imaginable only a decade ago, it would seem to be a useful exercise in civics to re-educate the public about the value and purpose of protecting against unwarranted government intrusion.
Richard Ben-Veniste
AgeSocial MediaPurposeValueMedia
One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown.
Marcy Kaptur
PurposeCrownSayKindBritishOff
'Mekhi' means, sort of, one who loves water, and the relationship with water and how water is important to life... It's a sense of being needed and purpose - you know, we have a purpose on this earth, and we're here to fill that.
Mekhi Phifer
LifeRelationshipWaterPurposeYou
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