A Quote by Richard Linklater
I guess I don't have a grandiose view of the world in general, and I never believe it when someone else has a grandiose moment.
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I was attacked the other night for being grandiose. I would just want you to note: Lincoln standing at Council Bluffs was grandiose. The Wright Brothers standing at Kitty Hawk were grandiose. John F. Kennedy was grandiose. I accept the charge that I am grandiose and that Americans are instinctively grandiose.
I am grandiose because I live a grandiose life; what’s wrong with that?
Not to get too grandiose about it, but I really believe I'm saying things a lot of Americans want someone to say.
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
A universe comes to contribute to our happiness when reverie comes to accentuate our repose. You must tell the man who wants to dream well to begin by being happy. Then reverie plays out its veritable destiny; it becomes poetic reverie and by it, in it, everything becomes beautiful. If the dreamer had "the gift" he would turn his reverie into a work. And this work would be grandiose since the dreamed world is automatically grandiose.
For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose idea
I emphatically do not assert the general 'truth' of this philosophy of punctuational change. Any attempt to support the exclusive validity of such a grandiose notion would border on the nonsensical.
It might sound dramatic and a little grandiose, but as a Latina, I would like to be someone that gives a voice to my culture.
A writer should never install himself before a panorama, however grandiose it may be.
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It's a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand. And you can be anyone you want: you can be as grandiose as you want or you can be as down in the gutter as you want. It's just sort of whatever emotional freeway you're on at the time.
I think I never had this grandiose dream of being any country music star. I just slowly progressed into that's what I'm doing.
Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel -- "contains the whole universe and will never need to be revised." In terms of the history of science and knowledge in general, this appears absurd and arrogant to me, and I am perpetually astonished that so many people still manage to live with such a medieval attitude.
It always seemed to me like it was a significant thing to do with one's life to be an actor 'cause I love movies and I felt like, not to be grandiose about it, but there is something important about film with the function it provides to general society.
Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads – as an anthology of images. To collect photographs is to collect the world
I don't make grandiose, prophetic statements in my songs.
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