Different Kinds Quotes - Page 11

• I've got a feeling I'm leaving stardom behind, you know. I'm gradually becoming more of a filmmaker, acquiring a different kind of dignity from that which you achieve in acting. After all, I'm no matinee idol, and I'm getting older. I don't think I can be doing my kind of thing in the seventies; I want to be on more of the creative side of business.

  Steve McQueen

  Thinking, Idols, Creative

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• This focus on money and power may do wonders in the marketplace, but it creates a tremendous crisis in our society. People who have spent all day learning how to sell themselves and to manipulate others are in no position to form lasting friendships or intimate relationships... Many Americans hunger for a different kind of society - one based on principles of caring, ethical and spiritual sensitivity, and communal solidarity. Their need for meaning is just as intense as their need for economic security.

  Michael Lerner

  Spiritual, Caring, Tyrants

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• I think the equipment you use has a real, visible influence on the character of your photography. You're going to work differently, and make different kinds of pictures, if you have to set up a view camera on a tripod than if you're Lee Friedlander with handheld 35 mm rangefinder. But fundamentally, vision is not about which camera or how many megapixels you have, it's about what you find important. It's all about ideas.

  Keith Carter

  Photography, Real, Character

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• My mother married again after my father's death - another Royal Air Force officer, and a very different kind of man. We went to Australia when I was eight or nine. We lived there for a couple of years, and then came back and lived in North Wales for the whole of my teenage years... I learned how to write poems quite a lot. I just had a good time reading and reading and reading. So that's where I did most of my growing up.

  Philip Pullman

  Mother, Growing Up, Couple

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November 2012.

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• It's fun to sit down and do a few drawings, but when you have to sit down and do hundreds of drawings whose value only depends on getting to the end of the chain, then you've created a different kind of monster.

  Gary Panter

  Fun, Drawing, Monsters

  Interview with David Jacob Kramer, believermag.com. June 1, 2009.

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• I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.

  Barry Hannah

  Different, Plot, Care

  Interview with Wells Tower, believermag.com. October 1, 2010.

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• I'm inspired to write songs by all kinds of things. Good sex with a good man, that might inspire a song. Bad sex - that might inspire a different kind of song.

  Lady Saw

  Song, Sex, Writing

  Interview with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, believermag.com. July 1, 2010.

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• I think one of the reasons that I love the fans that have stuck around, because I really enjoy writing different kinds of songs. I don't know if I write them well or not, but I can write them.

  Tyler Hilton

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: mousertime.blogspot.com

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• I've been struck by how hungry we all are for a different kind of politics. So I've spent some time thinking about how I could best advance the cause of change and progress that we so desperately need.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Thinking, Progress

  Barack Oba,a's remarks in a video posting, announcing his candidacy for President of the United States, January 16, 2007.

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• In Brazil we have a comic strip in the newspaper. That one also attracts a different kind of followers.

  Gabriel Ba

  Different, Followers, Brazil

  Source: archiv.comicgate.de

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• Weakness for wealth and for collecting and owning things of different kinds; the urge for physical (sensuous) enjoyment; the longing for honour, which is the root of envy; the desire to conquer and be the deciding factor; pride in the glory of power; the urge to adorn oneself and to be liked; the craving for praise; concern and anxiety for physical well-being. All these are of the world; they combine deceitfully to hold us in heavy bonds.

  Tito Colliander

  Pride, Roots, Envy

  Tito Colliander (1982). “Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth”, p.30, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• You have to constantly recreate yourself in show business, which is a very fast thing, especially now with the tremendous speed of social media. There are so many personalities, so many different kinds of comedy that you can access, so it’s definitely important to stake your claim and say who you are.

  Margaret Cho

  Media, Personality, Important

  "'I Want to Talk About How We Can Use Our Anger to Heal': Badass Comic Margaret Cho Dishes". Interview with Paula Young Lee, www.alternet.org. September 30, 2015.

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• I saw what luck and success I had as an opportunity to twist it up and do something different, so I've always sought out different genres and different kinds of characters.

  Harrison Ford

  Character, Opportunity, Luck

  "Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser Interview EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES". collider.com. January 17, 2010.

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• In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Teenager

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• Many Americans hunger for a different kind of society - one based on principles of caring, ethical and spiritual sensitivity, and communal solidarity. Their need for meaning is just as intense as their need for economic security.

  Michael Lerner

  Spiritual, Caring, Principles

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• First of all, I - right after September the 11th, I knew we were fighting a different kind of war. . . . And the people responsible for helping us protect and defend came forth with the current program, because it enables us to move faster and quicker. And that's important. We've got to be fast on our feet, quick to detect and prevent. . . .

  George W. Bush

  War, Moving, Fighting

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• I always find time to read novels and poetry as well as scripts; I like to enjoy different kinds of storytelling. I spend time at the beach and with my loved ones. I like traveling to unfamiliar places to challenge my perspectives and glean wisdom from other ways of life.

  Rose McIver

  Beach, Perspective, Challenges

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• I might be a completely different kind of songwriter but I definitely think there are some things... I've taken pieces from different people that I've met and worked with along the way from the Killers experience, within the band and without.

  Mark Stoermer

  Taken, Thinking, People

  "Mark Stoermer's Spell". Interview with Christina Cambria, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 12, 2016.

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• Monica Langley has a great piece in The Wall Street Journal about how they're trying to create different kinds of moments for Donald Trump, as opposed to just him shouting at rallies. They're trying to get him in classrooms, and in churches, and in diners and places where he can make a more personal connection.

  Bill Burton

  Wall, Church, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• They are involve in producing products and there are different kinds of people running them, but the principle is the same. A corporation shouldn't have the right. Under American law as its developed over the past century, corporation do have personal rights, but I think that's a very negative development.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Past, Thinking

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• I was really intrigued by how - sort of the common themes and sort of the blend among music, and that was sort of my real interest was, at one point, musically, was how you could weave those different kinds of songs and traditions together.

  Jill Stein

  Song, Real, Together

  Source: www.politico.com

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• We are lucky to live in a world made up of so many different kinds of people and I am confident in the direction we are going.

  Ashley Graham

  People, Different, Lucky

  Source: site.people.com

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• A bomb is a bomb, what's the difference between different kinds of bombs? All bombs are to kill, but it's about how to use it.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Differences, Different, Use

  "Syria's al-Assad speaks: Why he blames U.S. for truce's demise, and says war will 'drag on'". Interview with Ian Phillips, www.theglobeandmail.com. September 22, 2016.

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• I think cyber security, cyber warfare will be one of the biggest challenges facing the next president, because clearly we're facing at this point two different kinds of adversaries. There are the independent hacking groups that do it mostly for commercial reasons to try to steal information that they can use to make money.

  Hillary Clinton

  Independent, Thinking, Two

  "2016 Presidential Debates", TV Mini-Series (2016– ). "Episode #1.1", 2016.

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• We're going to have to make it clear that we don't want to use the kinds of tools that we have. We don't want to engage in a different kind of warfare. But we will defend the citizens of this country.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Different, Warfare

  "2016 Presidential Debates", TV Mini-Series (2016– ). "Episode #1.1", www.imdb.com. 2016.

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