Avildsen 4 Quotes

#1. "Jesus said to 5 of 7 churches, "Repent or Else." That should be the focus of every pastor, denomination. We are headed for the OR ELSE."

Michael Catt

#2. I was a complete unknown when I did 'Karate Kid.' I'd just done a pilot for a TV show called 'Call to Glory.' And I sat down with John Avildsen and brought still pictures from the show. I brought pictures! At that point, I would've been happy to be in a dog-food commercial.

Elisabeth Shue

#3. Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.

Henry Theodore Tuckerman

#4. Failure has gone to his head.

Wilson Mizner

#5. The marks won't listen if it's free.

Robert A. Heinlein

#6. What if history was changed? slavery reversed
Would black ladies see white boys and clinch they purse?

Fredro Starr

#7. All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in a circle.

Marcus Aurelius

#8. Before the start of the 2000 season, 'C.S.I.' wasn't supposed to be the hit. We all thought it would be 'The Fugitive.'

Leslie Moonves

#9. I guess Madden had seen everything with out group, and everybody else had seen everything. (After coming to practice field riding a horse and wearing a German WWI helmet painted silver and black)

Ted Hendricks

#10. The sad reality is, it's not just the people I go to school with that are doing it. It's their parents too. Their noses are all turned up at me, like because of my diagnosis; I'm an alien to them. I'm not like their son or daughter so that means I'm not worthy of respect.

Melyssa Winchester

#11. When I read 'Rocky V,' it was a terrific story, a great script. Rocky died at the end. He has this devastating fight with Tommy Gunn, ends up in an ambulance with his head in Adrian's lap, and by the time they get to the hospital, he's dead.

John G. Avildsen

#12. Tween programming is so retro that the shows even have theme songs, something the quest for more commercial time drove out of prime-time television years ago.

Jonathan Dee

#13. My dream was to have my own advertising agency by the time I was 30, and that was before I got into movies.

John G. Avildsen

#14. Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows.

Roger Scruton

#15. I have to think of the positive; that's how I cope.

Ingrid Newkirk

#16. I thought boxing was stupid.

John G. Avildsen

#17. It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Jerome