There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation
Herbert Spencer
About being on the Oprah show: "Yes, I was extremely happy to be on her show. I absolutely admire her. I never thought I`d actually be meeting her -- and that too, on her show! It`s so strange. But prior to our meeting, during my visit to the US for the p...
Aishwarya Rai
[to Eli Wallach prior to starting work on Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966) ("The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly")] Never trust anyone on an Italian movie. I know about these things. Stay away from special effects and explosives.
Clint Eastwood
When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it. My technique, which differs from film to film, is wholly instinctive and never based on prior considerations.
Michelangelo Antonioni
There were zombie films prior to George [Romero], but he pretty much invented the cannibalistic aspect. What we now think of as zombies really are Romero zombies.
Edgar Wright
[On his role as the village idiot in _Village, The (2004)_ ] "It just felt like it was the unconventional choice. It was the kind of role that I would have taken prior to the Academy Awards. A lot of actors tend to wait for the perfect role. And that perf...
Adrien Brody
[from a Barbara Walters interview a few months prior to his death] I am getting older and time is ticking. The more time goes by the more I feel a sense of urgency and I can accept anything except for complacency.
Christopher Reeve
On the adoption of her son, David: "My husband and I began the adoption process many months prior to our trip to Malawi. I did not wish to disclose my intentions to the world prior to the adoption happening as this is a private family matter. After learni...
Madonna Ciccone
On the adoption of her son, David: "My husband and I began the adoption process many months prior to our trip to Malawi. I did not wish to disclose my intentions to the world prior to the adoption happening as this is a private family matter. After learni...
Madonna Ciccone
Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.
Claire Danes
With such a low premium of 4 percent to the prior day`s close and the fact that there is a significant breakup fee of $225 million, it doesn`t give us much comfort that investors are being protected. There has been a huge turnaround among the credit card ...
Barbara Chamberlain
With such a low premium of 4 percent to the prior day`s close and the fact that there is a significant breakup fee of $225 million, it doesn`t give us much comfort that investors are being protected, ... There has been a huge turnaround among the credit c...
Barbara Chamberlain
Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11.
Charles Schumer
When you look at other defensive ends who have been inducted prior, you look at the hard numbers, and you do say, this is a subjective thing.
Alfred Cooper
When we were first offered a book deal prior to Avon`s, they were trying to get us to change it from the first-person story into a how-to book, and they were offering us some decent money. My agent told me; "you should really consider this".
Kenny Loggins
When this strike is over, there will be fewer jobs. The people who were unemployed prior to the strike aren`t going to be the first ones back to work.
Dick Wolf
What it means is that a lot of communities were working from a very low base. They either had very small grants the prior year or even no grants.
Michael Chertoff
Well - I started writing - probably in the early 60s and by say `65-`66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published - certainly in the 20 years prior to that.
Robert Adamson
We were at a very high level in the prior months, it seemed likely that a correction was going to come at us. The level of new homes sales is still healthy and the housing market is reasonably strong and it`s just that we are not maintaining the same robu...
Michael Moran
We want to deal with this up front. The goal is to be able to frame the size of the matter. These are historical financials from prior management; it has nothing to do with the current business. We look forward to getting this behind us.
Stephen Richards
We want to deal with this up front, ... The goal is to be able to frame the size of the matter. These are historical financials from prior management; it has nothing to do with the current business. We look forward to getting this behind us.
Stephen Richards
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation
Herbert Spencer
