Weintraub Quotes & Sayings

You can't "un-recgonize" something — Jerry Weintraub

I'm an independent, probably. I'm not dogmatic. I've supported Democrats and Republicans. — Jerry Weintraub

Finally, Weintraub had dealt with refusing all sacrifice, refusing any relationship with God except one of mutual respect and honest attempts at mutual understanding. He wrote about the multiple deaths of God and the need for a divine resurrection now that humankind had constructed its own gods and released them on the universe. — Dan Simmons

I called my book 'When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead' because that's the truth. I will keep talking until the big hand comes down from Heaven. But I am a spiritual man and I believe that even that does not have to be the end. — Jerry Weintraub

Every minute doing one thing is a minute not doing something else. Every choice is another choice not made another path grown over lost. — Jerry Weintraub

After fifty-five years of dedicating his life and work to the story of ethical systems, Sol Weintraub had come to a single, unshakable conclusion: any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil. — Dan Simmons

One thing," I said, when we had broken apart and the swirling feeling in my head subsided. "Maybe ... don't tell your mom too much about this. I think she has ideas." "What?" he asked, all innocence, as he put an arm around my shoulders and led me back toward his house. "Don't your parents cheer and stare when you make out with someone? Is that weird where you come from? I guess they don't get to see it much, though. From jail, I mean." "Shut it, Weintraub. If I knock you down in the snow, these kids will swarm and eat you. — Maureen Johnson

A future general, Captain Jack of the Cameronians, averse to the truce when on the line, had speculated in his diary a few days earlier, in almost Shavian fashion, about the larger implications of the cease-fire, which had extended farther than governments conceded, It is interesting to visualize the close of a campaign owing to the opposing armies
neither of them defeated
having become too friendly to continue the fight. — Stanley Weintraub

If you want to be in the world I live in, which is a creative world with new ideas, then you've got to get away from the norm. You've got to go for it. — Jerry Weintraub

I make friends easily. I'm a gregarious guy, I'm open, I'm easy to get to know - I don't lock myself in an ivory tower. So I like people; I enjoy people. — Jerry Weintraub

This much I knew As soon as you feel comfortable that's when It's time to start over. — Jerry Weintraub

Britain produces great actors because they learn on stage so know their stuff when they get on a movie set. — Jerry Weintraub

Will Smith is fantastic. — Jerry Weintraub

'Liberace's a great film. It's a great piece of material. I have a great script and it's a great score. — Jerry Weintraub

The fact is Jerry Weintraub, the handsome, bearish movie producer, the man with the long career, who worked with Arthur Godfrey and Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra and George Clooney, is a great storyteller - he's this as much as he's anything else. He takes time telling stories, too. — Rich Cohen

Disasters around the world are twice as big as they ever were, and ice is melting where it's not supposed to melt, and everything's changing - the world is changing - and it's all because of global warming, I think. — Jerry Weintraub

I have a very big phone book and a very long reach around the world. And I think - I don't think, I know - that 95 percent of the people who I know who weren't born into success who have become successful and done things that are different and made a lot of money and had a lot of excitement in their life are people who never hear the word 'no.' — Jerry Weintraub

When I found something I believed in and I cared about and thought I could market and sell and could be thought of creatively - the most important thing to me - I did it. — Jerry Weintraub

I'm a guy who shakes your hand and will never let you down. I have a code of honor and I don't lie. — Jerry Weintraub

Freedom is saying I want to do this Not that — Jerry Weintraub

Do not get attatched to the world as it is. Because the world is changing something new is coming. — Jerry Weintraub

I find a way to convince people to come along with me. They want to be persuaded. When I sit in a room with you I'm going to sell you something whether you want it or not. At the end you'll say: 'I'm glad I bought that.' — Jerry Weintraub

The budgets are much higher now, it costs more to make a movie and the kids that go to see them are into instant gratification. They want things bigger and bigger. I don't make those kind of movies. I make movies about relationships. — Jerry Weintraub

When you reach my age, you understand that you are a player with skin in the game, no matter what game it is. — Jerry Weintraub

Savor life don't press too hard don't worry too much enjoy — Jerry Weintraub

If asked my philosophy, it would be simply this: Savor life, don't press too hard, don't worry too much. — Jerry Weintraub

Relationships are the only thing that matter in business in life. — Jerry Weintraub

When I was a young boy, very young boy, mothers didn't work. Women were home, they took care of the house, they washed the dishes and took care of the children. That's what they did, and that's what my mother did. — Jerry Weintraub

At six months, 36 percent of patients reported new-onset fatigue, 20 percent reported widespread pain, and 45 percent reported neurocognitive difficulties. — Pamela Weintraub

People don't understand this, but I started very young, and I became very, very successful at a very young age. By the time I was 26 years old, I was a multimillionaire. And I started with nothing. And I was on the road 10, 11 months a year. — Jerry Weintraub

Rather, both sides fought as soldiers fought in most wars - for survival, and to protect the men who had become extended family. — Stanley Weintraub

I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do. — Jerry Weintraub

Liberace was Elton John and Lady Gaga before they even dreamed of it. — Jerry Weintraub

What they need, above all, is to sincerely connect with a source of useful and relevant information. These moments represent incredible opportunities for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry to help and be of service. — Scott Weintraub

Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors. — Bernie Mac

I like Scott Caan. I think he's a great young kid. I think he's gonna have a really huge career. — Jerry Weintraub

It's been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell. — Jerry Weintraub

On both sides in 1915 there would be more dead on any single day than yards gained in the entire year. And there would be nearly four more years of attrition - not to determine who was right, but who was left. — Stanley Weintraub

I've had great luck with directors. I've worked with all the great ones. — Jerry Weintraub

I think if something's good and you believe in it, and you care about it, and you give it love and nurture it, it's going to happen. — Jerry Weintraub