Dehmelian Quotes & Sayings

I give culture this meaning: exercise of thought, acquisition of general ideas, habit of connecting causes and effects ... I believe that it means thinking well, whatever one thinks, and therefore acting well, whatever one does. — Antonio Gramsci

As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers. — Stephen Frears

We have to, in the next ten years, begin to decrease the rate of carbon dioxide emissions and then flatten it out. If that doesn't happen in ten years, we're going to be passing certain tipping points. If the ice sheets begin to disintegrate, what can you do about it? You can't tie a rope around an ice sheet. — James Hansen

Most anti-vaccine books claim that all shots are bad, the diseases aren't really anything to fear, and as long as you live a natural and healthy lifestyle, you don't have to worry. I think this is a very irresponsible approach to the vaccine issue. Vaccines are beneficial in ridding our population of both serious and nonserious diseases. — Robert W. Sears

I like the intimacy of independent films and I like the idea that people aren't being paid necessarily as much money as some one on a studio film. — Kim Shaw

My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn. — Alice McDermott

Did Stanton say I was a damned fool? Then I dare say I must be one, for Stanton is generally right and he always says what he means. — Abraham Lincoln

Being here reminded him of how hard the city had been, it's unyielding surfaces, the relentless need for more and more money just to keep yourself vaguely afloat. The city was not a place for the contemplative or the slow. — Meg Wolitzer