Destroying Quotes

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He`s a fallen hero, a very gentle man under that exterior. He`s lived in an environment always ravaged by war and had to be realistic. He wants to use the ring against the enemy instead of destroying it. He doesn`t understand the complexities this piece of metal can have on human beings. (Talking about his character Boromir)

- Sean Bean

(2004 Quote on drinking) "I made a conscious decision to break away from big films when I got alcohol out of my life. I had been sucked into the blockbuster, box office mentality and it was destroying my sense of purpose in life. The loneliness of fame was messing with my head. Once you`ve been famous for a while and told your story, it can sound like a lie. You don`t know what`s true. It sounds like an article someone wrote rather than the essence of who you are."

- Patrick Swayze

Interviews from the Premiere of "Summer Catch" COREY PEARSON (Eric Van Leemer) You played baseball in college, but you weren`t a pitcher. How hard was it to transfer your skills to pitching? A lot harder than I thought. Every hitter thinks he can pitch, every pitcher thinks he can hit. And it`s rarely the case. What position did you play in college? I played 1st base. Why did you take this role? I went after this role with both feet and arms and everything because I really wanted to do this. I mean it`s a chance to play baseball again. I basically told them they had no choice but to take me. So, they accepted my offer - so to speak. I said I`ll dye my hair, I`ll do whatever you need me to do. You wore some very interesting outfits in the film. Is that your normal style of dress? No no no no no. We took Van Leemer (his character) to the nth degree because he`s supposed to represent that "image" that`s destroying pure sports. What`s next for you? "Going Greek" which is an indie comedy - sort of an "Animal House" meets "American Pie" sort of a frat thing. When is "Going Greek" coming out? It was just at the Hollywood Film Festival and there`s sort of doing a distribution thing now, so it`s not for sure. Probably Spring Break time.

- Corey Pearson

The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless.

- Hayao Miyazaki

What happens is, you become different people in your path as an actor. When I was doing those things, I was a very new actor. I didn`t have a lot of training, and I was trying to make some sort of impact, because that was what was important for me at the time - to get on the map. There were things I would do that were more shocking, or approaches I would do to try and live the character, because I didn`t have the training. But then, as I went on, I started to find other methods, ways to get into characters that weren`t exactly destroying my life. (On the wild eccentrics he used to get into character earlier in his career)

- Nicolas Cage

The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying. These men in their black towers don`t know what they are doing. It`s slave labour. There is no elegance left in anybody. They have no taste. Movies are being financed by conglomerates, which take a writeoff if they don`t work. The only people who fight for what the public deserves are artists.

- Olivia de Havilland

(on Tucker Carlson and his show): You may have heard that I went onto a TV show on CNN called "Crossfire" (1982), which I suppose is a debate show named after the stray bullets that strike and kill innocent bystanders during a gang fight. I said some pretty nasty things, most notably that their show was destroying America, and that he was a dick. He replied to me by saying, "You`re not being funny." I then said, "I know that, but on Monday I will go back to being funny, and your show will still blow."

- Jon Stewart

Over the twenty two years that I have lived here, I have watched forestry operations open the canopy destroying moist forest understorey,

- Sandra Taylor

Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They`re destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.

- Jerry Brown

If you want a higher power, go to the goddamn sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer.

- Susan Powter

Because they want more advertisements, they are destroying what is a very important part of the society - news reporting. It is wasting important national space that should be used in a more productive manner.

- Aamir Khan

The story is also about the battle between Arthur and the Saxons. The Saxons were destroying everything they came across and Arthur was left when Rome was falling because this movie takes place in 400 A.D.

- Antoine Fuqua

I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.

- Brian Mulroney

When I see people destroying their privacy - what they think, what they feel - by beaming it out to millions of viewers, I think it cheapens them as individuals.

- Richard Widmark

(about her last day on the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997) set:) "It was that sense that everything is coming to an end, like high school when you`re about to graduate -- you really start taking notice of everyone, and noticing your surroundings. Especially when they start destroying sets that are no longer in use. Like, `Oh my God, that used to be Xander`s apartment, now it`s just floors and a wall!` The last day, I really didn`t think I was gonna cry at all. But as soon as they said: `That`s a show wrap for Emma Caulfield!`, I cried. I cried once, and that was it. I woke up the next morning like, `OK, what`s next?`" (May 21, 2003)

- Emma Caulfield

They`re destroying a big part of Los Angeles history. I`ll be very sad to see it go.

- John Hammond

To me, the outsider is God, ... If you take extreme fundamentalist Muslims, who believe it`s sent down from Allah that destroying the infidel is their duty, and then if you take the extreme fundamentalists on the Christian right, God got disenfranchised somewhere in that deal a long, long time ago. The minute you start saying `I`m the only one that`s right,` you have lost it, as far as I`m concerned.

- Rodney Crowell

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.

- Randy Newman

I feel I am defending the (U.S.) Constitution by not committing war crimes, destroying a country, and killing innocent civilians.

- Ryan Johnson

I believe that what we are fighting here is not just a small group of people who have hijacked a religion, but it is a civilization bent on destroying ours.

- Tom Tancredo

We can continue to make significant strides in the scientific community by exploring new stem cell research methods that do not include destroying human embryos.

- John Boehner

Never interrupt your opponent when he`s destroying himself.

- Paul Begala

It`s about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.

- Alan Keyes

As I write in my book, there is a misnomer that destroying another person`s position is an effective and practical way to negotiate.

- Leigh Steinberg

We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.

- Wangari Maathai

My goal is either make something out of them or use them as is, ... I don`t believe in destroying them.

- John Gross

The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs.

- Charles Rangel

Nature creates while destroying, and doesn`t care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn`t extinguished, as long as death doesn`t lose its rights.

- Ivan Turgenev

The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.

- Andrea Dworkin

From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.

- R.D. Laing

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man`s growth without destroying his roots.

- Abdul Aziz

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatreds. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man`s initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

- Agnes Martin

The point is to change one`s life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.

- Al Hostetler

The great necessity for destroying Japan`s vital lifeline of shipping gave us no choice but to sink all Japanese ships encountered.

- Alfred L. Kroeber

Therefore, until the day I die, I am going to do what I can, regardless of the cost to me, to try to stop this awful corruption that is destroying our beloved democracy.

- Alison O'Connor

People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.

- Allen Merritt

The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years.

- Allison Baker

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

- Alyaksandr Milinkevich

We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life`s cycle, not as a first response.

- Alyaksandr Milinkevich

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it`s really bad because everything we`ve done is de-humanizing education. It`s destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.

- Andrew Neff

are obviously being viciously spun for the blatant political purpose of destroying my credibility at this key moment -- when our criticisms of NASA and the current rover mission are gaining legs. This is what someone is apparently quite concerned about.

- Ayman Zawahiri

The only thing that I was doing was destroying my own kind,

- Barbara Gann

I feel disgusted that he would have anything to do with the Olympic movement after nearly destroying the Olympics.

- Barbara Jensen

The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must be stopped!

- Pierre Cardin

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them

- Voltaire

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

- Albert Schweitzer

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

- Albert Schweitzer

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span

- Karl Kraus

Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.

- Marguerite De Valois