Accidents Quotes - Page 36

• The accidents are things that audiences always remember most, I've found on my own movies. The things that they like the most are the things that were just by accident. So you have to create a situation where nothing but accidents can happen the entire time.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Remember, Found, Situation

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• I don't think there is anything wrong with watching violence but I just think you have to present it in the appropriate light. I was like just watch how many accidents and deaths horror causes. Whereas I don't think anybody is going to go: "Oh, I just saw The Shining and I think I'm going to go axe somebody!" These movies aren't for everybody. The dark side of anything isn't for everybody. I think that you have to have some sort of responsibility in how you portray it because I always want the violence to seem real and if it seems disgusting then good, because it should.

  Rob Zombie

  Real, Responsibility, Dark

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• If you're injured in an automobile accident, and you sue the driver, you get much more for your injury than if you're fighting for your country. There's a double standard here.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Country, Fighting, Double Standard

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Believing in yourself and being willing to do anything, to walk through the fire, to do what it is that you want to do. Getting out of that car accident covered with blood to play the gig . . . I mean, that's me. That's just me.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Believe, Mean, Fire

  Source: www.independent.ie

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• That is very fine; but it is impossible to make the men perfect; the men will always remain the same as they are now; and no legislation will make a man have more presence of mind, or, I believe, make him more cautious; and besides that, the next time such an accident occurs, the circumstances will be so different, that the instructions given to the men, in consequence of the former accident, will not apply.

  Isambard Kingdom Brunel

  Believe, Men, Presence Of Mind

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• After reading ... accounts ... of minor accidents of light, it is little wonder that the average man would far rather watch someone else fly and read of the narrow escapes from death when some pilot has had a forced landing or a blowout, than to ride himself. Even in the postwar days of now obsolete equipment, nearly all of the serious accidents were caused by inexperienced pilots who where then allowed to fly or attempt to fly-without license or restrictions about anything they could coax into the air.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Reading, Men, Light

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• Although no definite reason for the accident has been established, modifications are being embodied to cover every possibility that imagination has suggested as a likely cause of the disaster. When these modifications are completed and have been satisfactorily flight tested, the Board sees no reason why passenger services should not be resumed.

  John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara

  Safety, Imagination, Boards

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• You know, and I know, the cause of this accident. It is due to the adventurous, pioneering spirit of our race. It has been like in the past, it is like that in the present, and I hope it will be in the future. Here is a great imaginative project, to build a machine with twice the speed and twice the height of any existing machine in the world. We all went into it with our eyes wide open. We were conscious of the dangers that were lurking in the unknown. We did not know what fate was going to hold out for us in the future.

  John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara

  Eye, Fate, Past

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• Every accident, no matter how minor, is a failure of the organization.

  Jerome F. Lederer

  Organization, Safety, Matter

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• Of the major incentives to improve safety, by far the most compelling is that of economics. The moral incentive, which is most evident following an accident, is more intense but is relatively short lived.

  Jerome F. Lederer

  Safety, Incentives, Moral

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• I realized that I really, almost by accident, had fallen into a labyrinthine, very powerful paradigm for dealing with these things through genre films. And once I realized that and realized the power of it, and the fact that because horror films aren't, in general, studio products - studios back them sometimes, but they don't try to meddle too much, because they kind of don't want to sully their skirts - you have a lot of freedom.

  Wes Craven

  Powerful, Trying, Want

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• I was hitchhiking to Washington to an anti-war demonstration in 1971, and I was in an accident, and that's how I became disabled; that's how I came into disability, in a sense.

  Simi Linton

  War, Hitchhiking, Disability

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• I don't watch myself gener­ally. I do something, see it once, and then I'll probably never see it again unless it's an accident.

  Steve Martin

  Allies, Watches

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• It's probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell. If you're going to spend two years of your life on something it has to matter to you, you have to be passionate about it.

  Angelina Jolie

  Years, Two, Issues

  "Angelina Jolie admits working with Brad Pitt again after Mr & Mrs Smith was 'heavy'" by Claire Rutter, www.mirror.co.uk. August 6, 2015.

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• Every day can be a platform to get you closer to your mountaintop. And yet, too many people live life by accident.

  Robin Sharma

  Live Life, People, Platforms

  Source: www.pickthebrain.com

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• You can say what you want about all the guns in the country [the USA], all the drugs, all the crime, but we all know 400,000 people a year die of cigarette-related deaths. How many people died of drugs, guns, automobile accidents? You add them all together it doesn't come anywhere near that. Yet they let me smoke and get cancer, and they put me in jail for having drugs. What's going on? The government don't care. It's all about money and job security.

  Sonny Barger

  Country, Jobs, Cancer

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• From since I could remember I've always been an artist, drawing, painting and so forth. I would also always draw made up rock n' roll characters in a band who each had their own style and personalities. I think by accident I was already becoming a fashion designer.

  Ashley Purdy

  Fashion, Character, Artist

  Source: marleymagazine.com

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• One time I was forced to go to the doctors because of a sports accident. Herpes.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Sports, Humor

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• I hate turkeys. If you go to the grocery store, you start to get mad at turkeys. You see turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastrami. Somebody just needs to tell the turkeys, "Man, just be yourselves!" I already like you, little fella. I used to draw you. If you had a couple of fingers missing, you would draw a really messed-up turkey. That turkey was in an accident!

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Couple, Hate

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• I was a terrible student in high school and the thing that the auto accident did - and it happened just as I graduated, so I was at this sort of crossroads - but it made me apply myself more, because I realized more than anything else what a thin thread we hang on in life, and I really wanted to make something out of my life.

  George Lucas

  School, Students, Crossroads

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• I wanted to be a car mechanic and I wanted to race cars and the idea of trying to make something out of my life wasn't really a priority. But the accident allowed me to apply myself at school. I got great grades. Eventually I got very excited about anthropology and about social sciences and psychology, and I was able to push my photography even further and eventually discovered film and film schools.

  George Lucas

  Photography, School, Ideas

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• I'm grateful for a lot of things. One is not being a drunk wreck. Or losing all four limbs in some ridiculous East Village bus accident that I was so destined for.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Grateful, Drunk, East

  Source: www.bookslut.com

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• I'm just a careful person around wheels and stuff like that. I try to be as cautious as I can, cause I lost friends to motorcycle accidents and car accidents. So I don't ever play around anything like that.

  Gucci Mane

  Play, Car, Motorcycle

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• I like to think that good people win. But even good people have other sides. Most people will slow down to get a good look at an accident, even though they won't admit it.

  Stephen King

  Winning, Thinking, People

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• If I may take the risk of defining what a spiritual experience is, it is one in which pure awareness reveals itself to you as the maker of reality - where you suddenly discover through insight or meditation or a freak accident that your essential nature is spiritual, non-material.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Reality, Meditation

  Source: accessnewage.com

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