Makers Quotes - Page 3

• If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Success, Faith

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• We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, History, Historical

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.13, Beacon Press

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• One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

  Lawrence Welk

  Music, Orchestra, Shampoo

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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• After I had been working as a cap maker for three years it began to dawn on me that we girls needed an organization. The men had organized already, and had gained some advantages, but the bosses had lost nothing, as they took it out on us.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Girl, Men, Years

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• We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams... Yet we are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems.

  Arthur O'Shaughnessy

  Life, Dream, World

  'Ode" l. 7 (1874)

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• The child’s parents are not his makers but his guardians.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Parent, Guardian

  Maria Montessori (1978). “The Secret of Childhood”, p.222, Orient Blackswan

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• In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.

  William S. Burroughs

  Writing, Psychics, Space

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.272, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Will is the measure of power. To a great genius there must be a great will. If the thought is not a lamp to the will, does not proceed to an act, the wise are imbecile. He alone is strong and happy who has a will. The rest are herds. He uses; they are used. He is of the Maker; they are of the Made. Will is always miraculous, being the presence of God to men. When it appears in a man he is a hero, and all metaphysics are at fault.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Strong, Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3094, Delphi Classics

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• The intellectual part of religion is a private affair between every man and his Maker, and in which no third party has any right to interfere. The practical part consists in our doing good to each other. But since religion has been made into a trade, the practical part has been made to consist of ceremonies performed by men called priests ... By devices of this kind true religion has been banished, and such means have been found out to extract money, even from the pockets of the poor, instead of contributing to their relief.

  Thomas Paine

  Party, Mean, Men

  Thomas Paine (1859). “The Theological Works ...: The Most Complete Ed. Ever Pub”, p.204

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• Let's say I am a chocoholic and I eat tons of chocolate a day. A hundred thousands of tons a day. I have this craving, but I can't afford it, so I get a printing press, and I start printing money, and I print billions and billions to buy chocolate. So I create this boom in the chocolate industry, so stores are running out of chocolate. So they have demand, so chocolate makers expand. Cocoa growers expand. You create this great boom. But now the feds arrest me and shut me down. And now there is a depression in the chocolate industry. That's what happens with the monetary policy.

  Charles Koch

  Running, Printing Money, Chocolate

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Rebels learn the rules better than the rule-makers do. Rebels learn where the holes are, where the rules can best be breached. Become an expert at the rules. Then break them with creativity and style.

  Kristine Kathryn Rusch

  Creativity, Style, Rebel

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• From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

  Donnie Yen

  Actors, Elements, Dynamics

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• I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Equality, Men, Choices

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• At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did.

  Charlize Theron

  Careers, Interesting, Different

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• Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Cities, Sound, Chicago

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 2”, p.236, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

  William Ralph Inge

  Prayer, Mean, Opportunity

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• A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.

  Robert Menzies

  Country, Successful, Men

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• I am an independent film-maker first and foremost. I have always cut my own cloth.

  Mira Nair

  Independent, Cutting, Firsts

  "'Becky Sharp is like me - a survivor'". Interview with Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2004.

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• They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some film-maker, 'You can have final cut. I'll open your film in Arkansas.'

  Mira Nair

  Mean, Cutting, America

  "Becky Sharp is like me - a survivor" by Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2004.

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• We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

  Karl Popper

  Fate, Prophet, Fate And Destiny

  The Open Society and its Enemies (1945) Introduction

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• Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?

  Algernon Sidney

  Hurt, Shoes, Made

  Algernon Sidney (1698). “Discourses Concerning Government, by Algernon Sidney ... Published from an Original Manuscript of the Author”, p.9

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• Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

  Iris Murdoch

  Women, Home, Two

  Iris Murdoch (1990). “The Message to the Planet”, New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books

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• All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Greek, Visionaries

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.58, University of Virginia Press

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• If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Parenting, Men

  "The Absorbent Mind" by Maria Montessori, Part I, (p. 4), 1949.

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• Even for the most difficult scenes, and there are difficult scenes in the film, and because Michael Haneke is such a great film-maker - I think a great film-maker is not only being inspired, but how to do it, how to make it as real as possible, knowing that it's not real.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Real, Thinking, Knowing

  Guardian interviews at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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