Insisting Quotes

Being called Jim made it easier for Oliver (Oliver Stone) and probably for me. In the end that approach was healthy because I don`t believe you`ve got to go out and shoot dope to play Jim Morrison. - On if the rumors were true about Kilmer insisting being called Jim Morrison while filming The Doors (1991).

Everyone wants to learn something; maybe not everyone makes the effort, because they get discouraged. I certainly was like that as a teenager in Brooklyn, always trying to hide my ignorance. But you have to find the strength to acknowledge that ignorance within yourself, otherwise you are going to remain stagnant. I learnt a valuable lesson with Ridley Scott. My agent kept insisting that I go watch the show-reel of this commercial director and I kept turning him down, thinking there was no way that I was even going to consider working with a commercial director. In the end I saw his reel and I was blown away by how great it was.

Gates argued that Sony`s new high-definition DVD standard, called Blu-ray, needed to be changed so it would work smoothly with personal computers running on Microsoft`s Windows operating system. Stringer and two lieutenants defended the technology, insisting Blu-ray would work fine in PCs, ... Yet Gates`s ire only grew. `There must be something much deeper going on,` Stringer said later, according to another person who heard the comment.

It was a long night for the umpires, too. I was only mad because he kept insisting he was right.

He was a brilliant producer who made a fortune and, of course, lost every cent in hare-brained investments, ... And he was in love with the male ingénue in the theatrical troupe; the only downside was the ingénue was, by this time, about 52, and he kept insisting on playing 18-year-olds. This guy insisted every season on doing two Shakespeare plays, and invariably somebody tried to murder him during the performance because, strangely enough, Shakespeare wasn`t big in the mining camps.

He was a brilliant producer who made a fortune and, of course, lost every cent in hare-brained investments, ... And he was in love with the male ingnue in the theatrical troupe; the only downside was the ingnue was, by this time, about 52, and he kept insisting on playing 18-year-olds. This guy insisted every season on doing two Shakespeare plays, and invariably somebody tried to murder him during the performance because, strangely enough, Shakespeare wasn`t big in the mining camps.

After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and that government be held accountable to people who voted us into office.

My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could be, but it developed later that no nurse was allowed to go farther than the large troop hospitals far in the rear of the actual operations.

These figures have given a much needed fillip to the gaming sector and have gone against the grain in insisting that online poker in particular is still showing signs of growth.

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor.

It`s like someone cutting up a loved one in front of you, all the time insisting they`ve got your best interests at heart. They`re very devious nowadays.

For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions.

We are insisting and we will continue to insist that this faith of the church must continue to be upheld come rain, come fire. That is our position.

I`m the one who signed it - but I told those people repeatedly that I wasn`t the actress. I was at this airport, you see, and they kept insisting that I was Sandra Bullock. It`s happened many times before - people mistaking me for the Hollywood star. But on this occasion they persisted. Finally, I agreed to give the autograph. But I made it clear that I was who I was - that I wasn`t Sandra Bullock.

It helps them refocus, just like Ken and I are, on insisting that some purpose be made out of this, ... Because we can`t let her die in vain. We just can`t. And they agree with that, and it`s hard.

Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul`s incurable lonliness. We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own.

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it