A diplomatic mission, like a company, is comprised of multiple departments, all of which must be relied upon to move business forward.
‐‐ James Costos
A diplomatic solution that puts significant and verifiable constraints on Iran's nuclear program represents the best and most sustainable chance to ensure that America, Israel, the entire Middle East will never be menaced by a nuclear-armed Iran.
‐‐ Joe Biden
A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.
‐‐ Douglas Sirk
A director just pushes them a little this way or that way.
‐‐ Debbie Allen
A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, 'If you don't know how to make the right decision, you're not a director.'
‐‐ George Lucas
A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.
‐‐ Jean Renoir
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
‐‐ Billy Wilder
A director recommended me for the role on 'Soap.' They said, 'She plays heavy roles, murderesses and the like.' He said, 'On stage, she could be very very funny.'
‐‐ Katherine Helmond
A director should cast a person who fits into their script.
‐‐ Christina Ricci
A director should not define everything. For me, the movie is a form of a question I pose to the others or to the audience. I want to ask their opinion on my point of view and discuss it with them.
‐‐ Kim Ki-duk
A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.
‐‐ Frank Darabont
A director will always tell you, when you go in to do a scene, 'You go as big as you want, and I'll tell you when to come down.' And I found that on 'Shameless,' you can't follow that rule because they will never tell you to come down. So, I've had to find my own balance with when it makes sense to get this upset or angry.
‐‐ Jeremy Allen White
A director without a vision is a catastrophe.
‐‐ Alan Arkin
A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
‐‐ George Orwell
A dirty player is somebody who ultimately is trying to hurt somebody. There's a huge difference. There's no gray in that. Like, you have no conscience, no nothing, no guilt. I don't have that mean streak in me. I don't play angry. It's not anger.
‐‐ Ndamukong Suh
A disaffected America can be drawn into a civilized - but disruptive - dialogue about political change and reformation.
‐‐ David Ignatius
A disagreement or incident involving someone who's not that important to you, like a guy who cut you off in traffic or a rude cashier, is something that should roll off your shoulders. Save the effort for resolving conflicts with the people you cherish.
‐‐ Joel Osteen
A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
‐‐ Ada Louise Huxtable
A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
‐‐ Russell Page
A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.
‐‐ Bessie Head
A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.
‐‐ Vince Lombardi
A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.
‐‐ Zebulon Pike
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
‐‐ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.
‐‐ George Oppen
A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.
‐‐ Laurel Lea
A disk unbeknownst to the director can go to the producer in another city or in another office and that producer can edit behind the director's back much easier than in the old days. Since these dailies are now put on videotape, more kinds of people have access to dailies.
‐‐ John Frankenheimer
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
‐‐ Daniel Webster
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
‐‐ Edmund Burke
A disruptive innovation is a technologically simple innovation in the form of a product, service, or business model that takes root in a tier of the market that is unattractive to the established leaders in an industry.
‐‐ Clayton M. Christensen
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
‐‐ Eric Hoffer
A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father's side, and it's sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations... four or maybe five generations.
‐‐ Gina McKee
A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
‐‐ Emile M. Cioran
A distinction between renewable and not renewable energy is academic.
‐‐ Carlo Rubbia
A distinguished producer called Kenith Trodd actually lived in his office for over a year - the cleaners refused to go in because it was such a tip.
‐‐ Andrew Davies
A disturbing prospect looms before us as Americans consider the possibility of a second term for President Barack Obama. Millions of conservatives who revere the Constitution, with its guarantees of freedom and limited government, have watched with alarm as the campaign season has unfolded.
‐‐ James Dobson
A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.
‐‐ Patti LaBelle
A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it.
‐‐ Jenifer Lewis
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood
A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.
‐‐ Anna Magnani
A DJ can't just play one song. It's about playing a set, or how you connect songs in those two hours, and where you place them.
‐‐ Zedd
A doable goal for me is to finish a marathon under four hours. I'm doing all the training, but the hardest part is eating right.
‐‐ Sean Astin
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
‐‐ Frank Lloyd Wright
A doctor can only treat patients. A doctor can only help the people who are shot or who are injured. But a politician can stop people from injuries. A politician can take a step so that no person is scared tomorrow.
‐‐ Malala Yousafzai
A doctor can save maybe a few hundred lives in a lifetime. A researcher can save the whole world.
‐‐ Craig Venter
A doctor does not ask about political views and opinions - that is how I understand my role.
‐‐ Ewa Kopacz
A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.
‐‐ Henny Youngman
A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
‐‐ Randa Haines
A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.
‐‐ Martin H. Fischer
A doctor once told me I have abnormal levels of adrenaline in my system.
‐‐ Jamie Dornan
A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.
‐‐ Bill Viola