Directors Statement Quotes & Sayings

Including the differential mortgage loan approval rates between Asian Americans and whites shows that the same methods to conclude that that blacks are discriminated against in mortgage lending would also lead to the conclusion that whites are discriminated against in favor of Asian Americans, reducing this whole procedure to absurdity, since no one believes that banks are discriminating against whites ... [W]hen loan approval rates are not cited, but loan denial rates are, that creates a larger statistical disparity, since most loans are approved. Even if 98 percent of blacks had their mortgage loan applications approved, if 99 percent of whites were approved than by quoting denial rates alone it could be said that blacks were rejected twice as often as whites. — Thomas Sowell

How does it happen that something that makes so much sense in the moonlight doesn't make any sense at all in the sunlight? — Lana Turner

Then I learned that we're born
with more bones than we die with. — Catherine Pierce

Are you getting hysterical?" Ty asked eagerly. "Can I smack you? — Madeleine Urban

I can tell you categorically that we at 60 Minutes did not pay Michael Jackson one cent. — Don Hewitt

A radical thinks two and two makes five. A liberal is more conservative. he knows two and two make four, but he's unhappy about it. — Herbert V. Prochnow

Being the director is really something. It's a statement of something and you have to stand up for that. Okay, this is what I see. This is how I see the world. This is how I see cinema. And you have to be able to talk about that and explain it and be responsible. — Mathieu Demy

My old therapist warned me that avoidance is a dysfunctional way to interact with people you care about, but now I'm starting to understand what he meant when he said it could hurt them, too. Maybe it's time I figure out a better way to deal with my problems. Maybe Artful Dodger isn't working so well for me anymore. — Jenn Bennett

It had been a great career. I mean, how many guys can say they averaged two points a game in their careers? It's too bad he's retiring too soon. The league is going to miss him. The fans are going to miss him. A real classy person and a great guy. — Johnny Bucyk

Life has its beauty in its simplicity.
Ugliness raises her head with complexity. — Debasish Mridha

Heaven is for thee too high
To know what passes there; be lowly wise.
Think only what concerns thee and thy being;
Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there
Live, in what state, condition, or degree,
Contented that thus far hath been revealed. — John Milton

Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women. — Ellen Barkin

Food and love are all intertwined at our core level. It can be a very nurturing, wonderful, loving thing. — Jami Attenberg

Sometimes I'm considered, I guess, a subtle actor. Maybe I'm less of a showman and more just trying to tell the story. I don't know what the perception is. I just want to tell the story so the story as a whole works as opposed to just making sure that I work. — Kelli O'Hara