“Universal, equal, direct and secret elections in the U.S.S.R. will be a whip in the hands of the population against poorly functioning organs of government.” HandsGovernmentSecretEqualDirectUniversalElectionPopulationOrgansWhips Author:Joseph Stalin
“Aside from producing I want to direct but I'm also going to get back out on the road.” WantDirectGet Back Author:Gabriel Iglesias
“When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are direct, others are indirect.” ShouldLooksFormDirectCorruptionIndirect Author:Wole Soyinka
“With theatre, you can interpret the most complex play on stage for it have meaning to an audience because you're dealing in images, you're dealing in action, you can use different idioms to interpret and clarify something which is obscured in the reading and of course there are different kinds of play, there are mythological plays, there are what I call the dramatic sketches, direct political theatre which is virtually everybody, but I find that you can use the stage as a social vehicle, you know, which any kind of audience.” KnowsKindDifferentPlayUseActionPoliticalCoursesReadingSocialAudienceStageDirectComplexesTheatreDramaticDifferent KindsVehicleIdiom Author:Wole Soyinka
“I changed those things that were in direct - my direct control. I mean, I - look, I'm proud of the fact that, with two weeks to go, we're probably the first administration in modern history that hasn't had a major scandal in the White House.” FirstsLooksMeanTwoFactsHouseWhiteWeekModernChangedProudMajorsDirectAdministrationWhite HouseScandalTwo WeeksModern History Author:Barack Obama
“One of the main differences between silent meditation and chanting is that silent meditation is rather dependent on concentration, but when you chant, it's more of a direct connection with God.” DifferencesMeditationDirectConnectionsSilentDependentConcentrationChantingSilent Meditation Author:George Harrison
“The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous. We have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world; the prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States; we do a trillion dollars in trade among the three countries; more than 18,000 American companies are involved in foreign direct investment in Mexico and Canada; an increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.” PeopleWorldCountryStatesJobsThreeEnergyUnitedNumbersHalfCompanySituationUnited StatesInvolvedCreatingDirectIndependenceTradeDollarsInvestmentPopulationEnvyBillionsEnormousPeacefulBordersCanadaFriendlyMexicoMexicanWithin ReachGeopoliticalCreating JobsEnergy IndependenceCanada And The United States Author:Alan Bersin
“Harry Reid employed the so-called nuclear option, broke the Senate rules to change the Senate rules, lowered the threshold for confirmation from 60 votes to 51 votes. And it is a direct result of Harry Reid that we now have the most conservative Cabinet in decades.” ResultsDirectVoteConservativeDecadesNuclearBrokeSenateEmployedCabinetsThresholdConfirmation Author:Ted Cruz
“You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else. My style of filmmaking happens to be give the audience what they know they don't want, but they want. Ultimately I have to write and direct in a way that let's just say, you don't want to regret making a choice.” KnowsWayWantGivingWritingSaidHappensChoicesAudienceSuccessfulStyleRegretDirectorsDirectFilmmakingWant U Author:Jordan Peele
“The travel ban that was imposed by the [Donald Trump] administration is a very direct reverberation of 9/11.” TrumpDirectAdministrationBansReverberation Author:Peter van Agtmael
“Trump doesn't need to spend a dime to get his message out. Trump doesn't have to run an ad. Trump doesn't have to run a series. He doesn't have to pay people to show up. He doesn't have to buy TV advertising, because he gets more coverage than the combined advertising the rest of the Republicans could buy. And aside from the overwhelming, significant upset that is, the very fact of all that ticks them off. Donald Trump has direct access to his supporters. And you know who gives it to him? The media.” PeopleKnowsNeedsGivingFactsShowsRunningPayMediaTvsTrumpRepublicanMessagesDirectSeriesAccessSignificantAdvertisingUpsetOverwhelmingAdsSupporterCoverageDimesTick Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Creativity is an innate function in a human being, as we see in tribal peoples, who spent their considerable leisure time making religious artifacts and sacred art. That is what I would call a direct culture, in that everybody in it is directly in touch with all the elements, both of the culture and of the environment.” HumansArtCultureReligiousHuman BeingsCreativityEnvironmentElementsDirectFunctionSacredLeisureInnateArtifactsLeisure TimeSacred Art Author:Michael Ventura
“I love the act of writing. I like the quiet, internal aspect of it. If I lost track of that, I couldn't direct the same way. I couldn't be a director for-hire; it's just not my nature.” IfsWayWritingLostQuietDirectorsAspectDirectTrackInternals Author:Oliver Stone
“To write, you have to know how to act and know about directing. To act, you also need to know how to write and direct.” KnowsNeedsWritingKnow HowDirect Author:Tate Taylor
“Most of our competitor nations around the world have a national education system and America is the only major nation in the world that operates off of local school boards. They receive very little direction from state boards of education or from the nation. So local school boards direct basically what happens and too often they're not willing to track or to do the supervision of the education system that will make it world competitive.” WorldLittlesStatesHappensSchoolAmericaNationsWillingMajorsDirectTrackLocalsAround The WorldBoardsCompetitorsEducation SystemSupervisionSchool BoardBoard Of Education Author:John Glenn
“I think it's pretty classic if you look at the way entertainment reflects the country's status. There was a reason in the '50s when communism was bubbling that there were a million zombie movies. Because that is the direct allocation. So for the last two years we've been hearing, "Make America great again." People go, "Well, America was never great." What do you mean? What you mean is that they want to look back in history. And so I think it's only natural for entertainment to reflect that.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantYearsWellsLooksMeanTwoCountryReasonLastsAmericaNaturalMillionsDirectEntertainmentHearingCommunismClassicTwo YearsZombieAllocationZombie Movie Author:Adam Pally
“Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster.” WantActorsTerribleDirectMethodDisaster Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“I think a lot of things do influence me, but the influence mechanism is as such that these things dive into your brain and bury themselves into your subconscious and you're never quite sure where and how they're going to emerge. I don't think I really take direct influence.” ThinkingBrainInfluenceDirectMechanismSubconsciousNever Quit Author:David Gilmour
“I do not think anyone should feel pressured into doing it but I am the sucker who will stop on the street and sign up to direct debits.” ThinkingFeelsShouldStreetsDirectSuckerPressuredDebit Author:Kate Thornton
“Donald Trump disproved the notion that there is a direct dollar-for-dollar correlation between how much money you had in your traditional war chest and what your election outcome was going to be.” WarTrumpDirectElectionDollarsNotionTraditionalOutcomesChestsCorrelation Author:Sheldon Whitehouse
“The fact that there aren't an abundance of African-American males that are getting lead roles [and] that are getting roles that have prominence on the big screen. [It's] the same thing from behind the camera; maybe even worse. Coming up, when you're black and you want to direct somebody says, "Oh, you're Spike Lee" or "You're John Singleton."” WantFactsBigsBlackBehindsRolesDirectCamerasMalesScreensAfrican AmericanAbundanceBig ScreenProminence Author:Michael B. Jordan
“I've always wanted to direct and as I grow and I get older and I get older I just want to let that evolve.” WantWantedGrowsDirectEvolve Author:Michael B. Jordan
“As I grow and get older, mature a bit, and work on my big boy voice a little bit, I definitely want to direct.” WantLittlesBigsGrowsBitsVoiceBoysLittle BitDirectMature Author:Michael B. Jordan
“I really want to have a really, really strong, one-sided opinion on something, and be connected to it and tell that story. Until I find that thing or that topic or whatever it is, I don't want to direct.” WantStoriesStrongOpinionDirectConnectedTopicsOne Sided Author:Michael B. Jordan
“Basically what Salomé did with Rilke as a mentor was direct him toward the Russian Orthodox Church, so he could project his love of the divine feminine onto the Virgin Mary. She wanted him to stop the cycle of being disappointed by the ultimate humanity of women. She was like, "You don't want me, you want the Virgin Mary." It's kind of a mystical concept! She also changed Freud's opinion, a little bit too late, about the female psyche, which he had so wrong. If it had been better publicized, it would have changed Western society's perception of the female psyche, too.” IfsWantKindLittlesWantedHumanityBitsChurchOpinionChangedDivineLike YouProjectsLatePerceptionLittle BitConceptsFemaleDirectUltimateWesternToo LateCyclesOrthodoxFeminineDisappointedWant MeMaryMentorMysticalVirginsHis LoveVirgin MaryDivine FeminineWestern SocietyBeing DisappointedOrthodox Church Author:Laura Marling
“I wanted to be a director first to protect my writing. I'm a playwright and you don't need to protect your writing when you're in the theater because everyone's there to protect the writing. When I had an idea for a film that I really cared about as my own, I wanted to direct it, and then I immediately became interested in directing in and of itself because it's such a deep art. You suddenly have all these tools at your disposal to tell the story.” NeedsWritingFirstsArtIdeasStoriesWantedFilmMy OwnDirectorsProtectToolsDirectTheaterPlaywright Author:Kenneth Lonergan
“I was perhaps one of the few people that were not part of [Pablo Escobar] group of yes-men because I was not a direct beneficiary of the violence that his actions generated.” PeopleMenActionViolenceGroupsDirectBeneficiariesPablo Escobar Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“I don't think anything has changed about me but my priorities have changed. At one point I was living my life and I didn't see a direct correlation between who I was affecting with my actions. I'm not as reckless, I'm probably not as fun or funny. I've turned to my dad's sense of humor. I think that having a family has put a lot more focus on what I do.” ThinkingActionFunFocusChangedDadDirectMy DadPrioritiesSense Of HumorLiving My LifeRecklessCorrelationThings Have Changed Author:Anthony Green
“News about the Russia connections to the [Donald Trump] administration and what we are continuing to learn about those connections. What`s getting to be, I think, particularly unsettling is that simultaneously we are right now what`s going on, I think, is that we are number one nailing down more direct connections between the Trump campaign and the Russian government at the time the Russian government was influencing our election.” ThinkingGovernmentNumbersInfluenceTrumpRight NowNewsDirectConnectionsElectionCampaignsRussiaAdministrationContinuingRussian GovernmentContinuing To Learn Author:Rachel Maddow
“We`ve got [evidence] of direct Russian government connections with the [Donald] Trump campaign, during the campaign, while the Russian government was interfering in our election to try to elect Trump.” TryingGovernmentTrumpEvidenceDirectConnectionsElectionCampaignsInterfereRussian Government Author:Rachel Maddow
“How we think about terrorism has to be defined and specific enough that it doesn't lead us to think that any horrible actions that take place around the world that are motivated in part by an extremist Islamic ideology is a direct threat to us or something that we have to wade into.” ThinkingWorldEnoughActionDirectThreatTerrorismHorribleIdeologyDefinedAround The WorldIslamicMotivatedExtremistWade Author:Barack Obama
“There is also evidence that the people close - that people close to the [Donald] Trump campaign had advanced notice of WikiLeaks actions and may have had direct contact with WikiLeaks itself while they were releasing those documents from the Democratic Party, from the [Hillary] Clinton campaign.” PeopleMayActionPartyTrumpEvidenceDirectDemocraticClintonCampaignsContactDocumentsDemocratic PartyWikileaks Author:Rachel Maddow
“It is important to eliminate the stigma created by American imperialism and its allies regarding the Cuban political system. That stigma must be eliminated. You may think that there are no direct elections in Cuba. I am going to tell that they are direct and you can compare our process with any other country including the United States.” ThinkingMayImportantCountryStatesPoliticalProcessUnitedUnited StatesDirectElectionIncludingCompareAlliesOther CountriesImperialismCubaStigmaPolitical SystemsCubanAmerican Imperialism Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“Cuba is not like bourgeois democracy the ones that imposes the blockade to make Cuba change. We have direct elections. Here they put people on a list and then tell the people supposedly what they have done so they can be elected. That is the difference and why we say our democracy is truly participatory and popular.” PeopleDoneDifferencesDemocracyDirectElectionListsCubaBourgeoisBlockades Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“The Islamic world is not only suffering from the American occupation of Palestine and Iraq, it's also suffering from the unbelievable corruption in Afghanistan by Afghans themselves and also in Iraq - I'm just giving these 2 examples of countries which are under direct occupation; I do not mean at all to negate the terrible events that led to this or what's going on with the foreign occupation there.” WorldGivingMeanCountrySufferingEventsExampleTerribleDirectIraqCorruptionIslamicOccupationAfghanistanUnbelievablePalestineTerrible Events Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“In Islam, we believe that it is God himself who is the ultimate guide - Al Hadi - one of the names of God is Al Hadi, the Guide. But at the same time, God has provided within the Islamic revelation the possibility of spiritual guidance through human beings, because then everyone can have direct access to God.” BelieveHumansSpiritualNamesHuman BeingsPossibilityDirectUltimateIslamGuidesAccessGuidanceIslamicRevelationsAlsSpiritual Guidance Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“On the one hand information is moving quick or the way in which people consume information is changing so fast. Clearly this worked for [Donald Trump], and it gives him a direct connection to a lot of the people that voted for him.” PeopleWayGivingHandsMovingInformationTrumpDirectConnections Author:Barack Obama
“This is something which I think I have been able to communicate to both people I have taught and people that have purchased our work since that time, that they all say, it's so nice to have these pots with us all the time and to eat out of them and be in direct contact with them in our homes.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensHomeAbleNiceTaughtDirectCommunicateContactPot Author:Warren MacKenzie
“Remember, this is back in the '40s, and the idea of a museum being a place where interested people could come in direct contact with works hadn't arrived on the scene yet. That, I think, I first ran into at the Freer Gallery in Washington, D.C., where a man named Marty [Martin] Amt decided that he really felt his job - part of his job, as an assistant [to the] director was to make the collection available to interested people.” PeopleThinkingMenFirstsIdeasJobsRememberFeltSceneDirectorsDirectDecidedAvailableContactRanCollectionsMuseumsGalleryAssistantsMarty Author:Warren MacKenzie
“The two teachers that I had in the Art Institute who affected me the most were Kathleen Blackshear and Robert von Neumann; Kathleen Blackshear because she taught a class called design - I can't remember, design something, and in this class - it met once a week - we would do work centered around some theme, word or subject or technique or whatever, and bring it in for a three-hour discussion. And Kathleen was able, in watching and looking at our work, to direct us to all kinds of things which might relate to what we were trying to do, but she never attempted to tell us what to do.” TryingKindArtI CanTwoMightAbleRememberThreeHoursClassTeacherWeekSubjectsDesignTaughtMetsDirectTechniqueAll KindsRelateDiscussionThemeAffectedInstituteVon Neumann Author:Warren MacKenzie
“I followed [Shoji] Hamada, because I guess Alix [MacKenzie] and I, we both saw the danger that lay in planning things out on paper and then simply executing them. And with Hamada there was a much more direct sense that the piece had happened in the process of making on the wheel, and that was what we wanted to do with our work. We weren't always able to do it, though.” AbleWantedProcessSawsPiecesHappenedDangerPaperDirectLaysPlanningWheelsExecutingPlanning Things Author:Warren MacKenzie
“In film school, I knew I wanted to be a director, but I found out pretty damn quickly that nobody was just going to hand me a script to direct.” HandsWantedSchoolFilmFoundDirectorsDirectScriptsDamnFilm School Author:Gina Prince-Bythewood
“I think there is a kind of laconic Australian leg-pulling sense of humor that is certainly in some of my stories, or is an element in some of my books, and that's probably a direct result of where I've grown up. But other than that I don't draw particularly on the Australian landscape or the Australian biology and so on. So I don't think there's anything you could point to and say is particularly Australian.” ThinkingKindBookStoriesResultsElementsDrawsDirectLegsLandscapeBiologySense Of HumorPullingAustralianLaconic Author:Garth Nix
“Jesus said that I am the only way. So it is illogical to say all religions are true, but it is not illogical to say all religions are false. All religion could be false but they can't all be true because there are direct logical contradictions.” WaySaidJesusDirectBeing TrueContradictionLogicalIllogical Author:Josh McDowell
“I like to work with actors that have varied experiences. But I don't choose them because of their experience, I choose them because of qualities I think would make an interesting character and to me there is no one way to direct actors, there is only one way to collaborate with one person.” ThinkingWayPersonsCharacterActorsInterestingQualityDirectOne WayInteresting Characters Author:Jim Jarmusch
“Obviously as a performer there's nothing more direct and emotionally satisfying than playing s**t for someone who likes your stuff, but I don't think I can make big room. No shade to the old guys, there's some dudes who are about that life and are good at it.” ThinkingGuyDirect Author:Jacques Greene
“I was thinking maybe about being a lawyer. I realized I was interested in becoming a priest at one point. I was just interested in stuff where I could do something I really believed in. And then, I realized if I become an actor, I don't have to choose. I get to do everything. It's worked out so far. But what I really want to do is direct.” IfsThinkingWantActorsStuffBecomingDirectLawyerI RealizedPriests Author:John C. Reilly
“I'm not interested in, and not capable of, direct politics. What I can do - I try to figure out the underlying principles. I'm interested in the psychological forces that divide Indian people as a nation.” PeopleTryingI CanForceNationsCan DoPrinciplesFiguresCapableDirectPsychologicalIndianDividesNot Interested Author:Sarnath Banerjee
“There is an interesting and new way to be excited about the fashion world today maybe. The traditional path of fashion as simple magazine images has dissolved - we are seeing new and innovative ways to share, create, and enjoy ideas. I am challenged to learn and explore paths of finding new photographers, stylists, and vision-makers online or through direct contact, connecting with ideas and creativity in new ways, and making images with different outlets. Sometimes more unbridled avenues and unconventional ways lead to things I wouldn't have thought of yet.” WorldWayIdeasDifferentSometimesTodayEnjoySimpleInterestingVisionCreativityPathSeeingShareFashionFindingsDirectPhotographerExcitedTraditionalContactMagazinesOnlineMakersNew WaysConnectingInnovativeOutletsAvenuesWorld TodayStylistUnconventionalIdeas And CreativityFashion World Author:Guinevere Van Seenus
“With acting, if a friend asked me to be in a movie or TV show, there's a lot of things on my résumé I did without reading them or knowing what they were. I just said I'd do that because a friend wrote it, directed, produced, acted in it. With directing, I'm sticking to my guns, not that a lot of people are begging me to direct.” PeopleIfsSaidShowsReadingActingKnowingTvsGunDirectTv ShowsBegging Author:Bob Odenkirk