Favors Quotes

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"Val did me two great favors. When I wanted him to be Batman, he said yes. Then he created a situation which allowed me not to have him play Batman again. They were both happy, happy instances, for which I will always be grateful." -- Premiere magazine (April 1997), in an article on Val Kilmer.

- Joel Schumacher

As far as I`m concerned he is a far more intellectual writer and person than me, and I have a directness that maybe he hasn`t. I love this man and his music very much. Comparisons don`t do either of us any favors, and in fact if we hadn`t been in the same band for 4 years 30 years ago, no one would even think of making a comparison. (On Peter Gabriel)

- Phil Collins

Luck favors the prepared.

- Catherine Keener

I was able to lean on people for favors and things to help out because their budget was so low. It was half of what John Travolta`s perk package is on a film. Our whole budget was half of what his staff makes on a film.

- James Woods

My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn`t walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.

- James Woods

At the beginning, that was their approach, ... It doesn`t matter if you`re Latin, American or Italian, if we`re going to talk business, talk business. I`m not doing you any favors, you`re not doing me any favors because we`re speaking in Spanish. I`m a man first.

- Carlos Delgado

(Once Weir began describing his free skate, though, the energy in his voice rose sharply. Instead of performing to the romantic music he usually favors, the two-time U.S. champion will show off a modern twist in tonight`s Campbell`s International Figure Skating Classic.) It`s a little edgier program, and the music is piano with a techno background, ... It`s special because it`s different.

- Johnny Weir

Earnings momentum now favors Europe. Given the continued divergence in unit labor cost behavior between the two regions, coupled with the recent weakness of European currencies vis-a-vis the U.S. dollar, momentum should continue to favor Europe.

- Ian Scott

Hollywood don`t always pay a lot of money. Because we`re English they think we`re cheap! And you haven`t got to be the greediest man in the world. If you want to do something, you go and do it. What`s the point of you being paid a lot of money if you haven`t got the quality of the film? In the long run you`re not doing yourself any favors because you`re going to end up in a piece of shit.

- Ray Winstone

Nothing personal about it, ... And it certainly was not a request for special favors, which we wouldn`t have given him anyway.

- Gary Moore

They use a lot of friends and favors, ... In order for it to really compete with Hollywood you need a professional class of person both in front of and behind the scenes.

- Mark DeCarlo

Louis Pasteur said, `Chance favors the prepared mind.` If you`re really engaged in the writing, you`ll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.

- Michael Chabon

One answer is that the town`s elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this.

- Michael Kinsley

Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.

- Dick Morris

In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.

- Adam Krupicka

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

- Adrienne Norris

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

- Al Hubbard

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

- Alex Hamilton

That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.

- Alexander Eliot

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

- Alfred Russel Wallace

Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class.

- Ana Verley

They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none.

- Andre Bauer

In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one day, ask to have returned.

- Anne Hodkin

(In a move Stone favors, the NCAA has modified the women`s rules for the preseason workouts, increasing the individual skills time from two hours to four hours per week and permitting more than four players to participate at a time with coaches, meaning full teams can go through drills.) I think it`s a great thing, ... You can build chemistry.

- Ashley Hilton

That dispute arose under the previous Liberal administration which favored abortion on demand. Unless the new minister, Tony Clement, favors Medicare fraud, he should drop the matter. It is not about being for or against abortion, it is a question of respecting the law.

- Auwalu Haruna

I ask no favors for my sex... All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks.

- Barbara Bartoletti

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

- Janet Watson