Ten Quotes

If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail.

I figure if I have one false start every ten or 12 years that I've been running, I probably won't false start again during my career.

One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

It breaks even. We lose ten, twenty grand every year. But then the people who are working say, Look, I'll kick this back in, I don't need to take this profit share. It's very cooperative.

Actually I did, because I saw the film like everyone else, ten years ago and I remembered some of it. I just wanted to see it, to kind of remember the tone a little bit.

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

I'll be sober ten years and married nine soon.

The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.

Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.

One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must carry out those we that understand as well as those we don't.

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.

Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million.

I've had the same friends for ten, fifteen years.

On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.

I used to work, part time, in a deli, in those days when your parents made you work just so you should know what work was like. And you'd make 4, 5, 6, ten dollars.

Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.

If there's one thing for which I admire you, it's your original discovery of the Ten Commandments.

As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I've got it. I don't think there's any reason to take ten takes unless you need them.

You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you.

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one... and we had ignition!

Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.

Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples.

Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.

Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.

In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.