Funders Quotes

#1. I feel like a lot of funders of documentaries today want to fund films that have a social message that is going to yield results.

Marshall Curry

#2. The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they'll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.

Bill Gates

#3. Democracy has now become corrupted by the nature of the funders.

George Hamilton

#4. I'm grateful that I've enjoyed the support of libraries, bookshops and institutional funders.

Sara Sheridan

#5. You and I both know that as long as our representatives are held hostage to their funders - and their funders are not all of us - our system will not work

Lawrence Lessig

#6. I have actually been very fortunate to be able to make films on my own credit card without having huge funders behind me dictating how the story should be told.

Jehane Noujaim

#7. I don't believe in crowd funders. I don't believe the fans should be paying for their own things.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

#8. If scientists could communicate more in their own voices - in a familiar tone, with a less specialized vocabulary - would a wide range of people understand them better? Would their work be better understood by the general public, policy-makers, funders, and, even in some cases, other scientists?

Alan Alda

#9. Litigation funders are private companies that raise money from their investors to buy into big lawsuits.

John Grisham

#10. I have been asked whether I would agree that the tragedy of the scientist is that he is able to bring about great advances in our knowledge, which mankind may then proceed to use for purposes of destruction. My answer is that this is not the tragedy of the scientist; it is the tragedy of mankind.

Leo Szilard

#11. My worryingly paradoxical thought process could be summarized thus: Thank God I don't believe in the secret rulers of the world. Imagine what the secret rulers of the world might do to me if I did!

Jon Ronson

#12. Buddhism is a practice in which we learn to avoid injuring others, and ourselves. It's a practice in which we learn to respond to beauty, and to respond to difficult circumstances with patience, with a sense of calm, with clarity.

Frederick Lenz

#13. I may think of you softly from time to time. But I'll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again.

Arthur Miller

#14. I'd only been in the business three or four years, but I told myself that someday I'd like to be Mort Janklow.

Larry Kirshbaum

#15. I started as a director and just fell upon acting.

Danny Huston

#16. I know this: there is no sense to grief. There is no pattern or shape or texture, and there are no books or stories which can lessen the pain at losing a person you have loved, and will always love. There are no rules, with loss.

Susan Fletcher

#17. I have the honesty to say I'm an Atheist. There is nothing that supports the idea of a personal God.

Ernst Mayr