Itself Quotes

Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

MTV has always been about redefining itself.

We stuck the record head so it kept on recording over and over on top of itself and played keyboard notes into it to create this ghost repetition melody.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are.

I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself.

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself.

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn't happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap.

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

It's important to show that, while authorizing the demonstrations and promoting diversity of opinion, the Republic can't allow itself to be undermined from within.

I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends itself to an artistic reflection. I always aim to look directly at what I'm dealing with. I think it's a task of dramatic art to confront us with things that in the entertainment industry are usually swept under the rug.

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

There is nothing I can do about this stuff and I am pretty well ok with the fact that I think Sundance is not going to be stopped by it, because he Festival is itself now, and doesn't need me out there to talk about it like I did years ago.

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

It's the company itself, but most of these mutual fund companies, the guy who runs the company is just a fact totem and the guy who runs the money is the power. But we really don't know who they are.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.

I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.

I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work.