Mines Quotes - Page 27

• Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.

  Nate Berkus

  Kids, Indiana, Fleas

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• I've started a little independent record label called 'Six String Productions' and recorded a couple of tunes, and I hope to do some more with some future artists next year. It's a real passion project of mine.

  Tom Felton

  Couple, Real, Independent

  "Tom Felton Interview HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS – PART 1; Plus an Update on RISE OF THE APES". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 22, 2010.

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• Writing to me is a deeply personal, even a secret function and when the product I turned loose it is cut off from me and I have no sense of its being mine. Consequently criticism doesn't mean anything to me. As a disciplinary matter, it is too late.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Mean, Cutting

  "John Steinbeck, The Art of Fiction No. 45". Interview with Nathaniel Benchley, www.theparisreview.org. Fall 1969.

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• I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.

  Wayne Knight

  Thinking, Careers, People

  "Wayne Knight talks about The Exes, Newman, and working in the mud for Jurassic Park". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 25, 2012.

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• I think the Clintons are going to make their decision based on the merits. And their focus, like mine, is on middle class jobs. We`re in a different world than 1994. The China we dealt with in 1994 is a lot different than the China today in 2015.

  Chris Matthews

  Jobs, Thinking, Class

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I've read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I've read, because he is like a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I'm not a big reader.

  Conor McGregor

  Book, Hero, Home

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I have unemployed my girlfriend. She had a job working for a cardiologist and now she can hang out, put her feet up, buy all the things she wants, have a nice breakfast with you and me in the Four Seasons. Any fights in families like mine come from everyone worrying about money. I'm taking all those worries away. That makes me feel happy, makes me really proud of what I do.

  Conor McGregor

  Girlfriend, Jobs, Nice

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• Golf isn't a sport, it's a game. I'm not saying it's not a difficult game, with lots of mental stuff. But it's not a sport like mine. Where is the combat, the intensity of what we do?

  Conor McGregor

  Sports, Golf, Games

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• If something rad is going on and it has to do with film, I want to be there. If it's getting coffee, I don't care. It's a passion of mine.

  Rie Rasmussen

  Coffee, Passion, Rad

  Source: collider.com

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• The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of religious skepticism. Humanists, by and large educated, comfortably middle-class persons with rewarding lives like mine, find rapture enough in secular knowledge and hope. Most people can't.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Religious, Class, Luxury

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Timequake”, p.74, Random House

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• Ideally, you should be your own hero, just as I am mine.

  Michael Bywater

  Hero, Should

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• Whoopi Goldberg looked like me, she had hair like mine, she was dark like me. I'd been starved for images of myself. I'd grown up watching a lot of American TV.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Dark, Hair, Tvs

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• People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine.

  Sally Phillips

  Strong, People, Church

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• You have to let kids live their own lives and make their mistakes, but it is difficult now because there are so many things in their lives which weren't in mine - I never had Facebook. And some of the things I see now I'm appalled by. So I'm as nosey about my daughter's life as I can be. I tell her, 'I'm all over you, whether you like it or not.'

  Dawn French

  Daughter, Mistake, Kids

  "Dawn French opens her heart on the death of her mum and the challenges her family faced" by Alison Phillips, www.mirror.co.uk. October 30, 2012.

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• Whatever your problems in math are, I assure mine are greater.

  Albert Einstein

  Math, Problem, Greater

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• To anticipate, not the sunrise and the dawn merely, but, if possible, Nature herself! How many mornings, summer and winter, before yet any neighbor was stirring about his business, have I been about mine...So many autumn, ay, and winter days, spent outside the town, trying to hear what was in the wind, to hear and carry it express! I well-nigh sunk all my capital in it, and lost my own breath into the bargain, running in the face of it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Running, Morning

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• Girl, I got my mind. And what goes on in it. Which is to say, I got me...my lonely is mine.

  Toni Morrison

  Girl, Lonely, Mind

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• Streaking through a large crowd has always been a secret fantasy of mine.

  Rashida Jones

  Secret, Crowds, Fantasy

  "20Q: Rashida Jones". Interview with David Hochman, www.playboy.com. October 12, 2011.

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• My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.

  Bill Gates

  Son, Interesting, Stuff

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• Whatever happens with us, your body will haunt mine

  Adrienne Rich

  Body, Whatever Happens, Happens

  Adrienne Rich (2013). “The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977”, p.30, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I like style. For Dior, I did more of a collaboration shoot, not just a single image - so there was more to it. It's a very prestigious brand. I like their style and feel like their style is mine.

  Eva Green

  Style, Collaboration, Dior

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• Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to.

  Michael Caine

  Believe, I Believe, Believe In God

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I did a movie with Leonardo DiCaprio, and his skill level was eons ahead of mine. It was really more like an abattoir - he just slaughtered my character over and over again.

  John C. Reilly

  Character, Skills, Levels

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• Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others savage or barbarous, so my field was, though not in a bad sense, a half-cultivated field. They were beans cheerfully returning to their wild and primitive state that I cultivated, and my hoe played the Ranz des Vaches for them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hoe, Savages, Half

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.98, Graphic Arts Books

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• I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have
  been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.

  William Shakespeare

  Dancing, Dancer, Enemy

  William Shakespeare, Alan Brissenden (1998). “As You Like it”, p.219, Oxford University Press, USA

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