Remaking Quotes

#1. Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.b

Barack Obama

#2. Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you.

Harry S. Truman

#3. The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women.

Paulo Freire

#4. I don't think we would be specifically remaking "Child's Play 2" and "Child's Play 3". I imagine we'd be dreaming up whole new stories.

David Kirschner

#5. Think positively about yourself ... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you.

Norman Vincent Peale

#6. Everyone I'm photographing, I feel like I'm remaking a family, in a way. My brothers and sisters are my heroes. So many of my models resemble them.

Ryan McGinley

#7. I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, we've been remaking 'Hamlet' for a hundred years, so it's no problem to me at all. A good story can be told in many different ways in different places; I just think it's interesting.

Baltasar Kormakur

#8. I'm thinking of remaking 'Psycho' again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a punk rocker setting.

Gus Van Sant

#9. Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state.

R.J. Rushdoony

#10. I think on the things - the issues that Pope Francis cares about - not just remaking the Church and in just sort of a more compassionate visage, but really on trying to move real policy.

Joy-Ann Reid

#11. Remaking the world wasn't always a stage show and a cheering crowd. Politics was just warfare by other means. The losers didn't get to hold rallies.

Alex London

#12. Just as Bowie, Zeppelin, etc., became rock stars by remaking themselves in the image of the California girls, the Go-Gos became rock stars by pretending to be the Buzzcocks and the Sex Pistols. Jane Wiedlin always said her biggest influence was growing up in L.A. as a Bowie girl.

Rob Sheffield

#13. There are a lot of different elements in play when you're remaking something people care about.

Colin Trevorrow

#14. His touch cable knits my veins, remaking and remolding who I am.

Poppet

#15. Things themselves cannot touch the soul, not in the least degree, nor have they admission to the soul nor can they turn or move the soul: it turns and moves itself alone and whatever judgment it may think proper to make, such it makes by remaking for itself the things that present themselves to it

Marcus Aurelius

#16. You're a fairy princess beaming at me, remaking the world in your image. Wiping away everything that hurts. But someday everything that hurts will come back and kill you.

Sarah McCarry

#17. At the resurrection, there will be the return of spirits to their bodies, the revivification of the bodies, and the remaking of the bodies.

Said Nursi

#18. You can't really move forward until you look back.
[From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University]

Cornel West

#19. Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.

Andrei Platonov

#20. Allah does not withhold to withhold. Remaking the heart was the objective. To remake it, He sometimes breaks it first.

Yasmin Mogahed

#21. One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

Sydney Pollack

#22. I think I would love a shot at remaking 'The Philadelphia Story,' as daunting as it is. I still think it's fantastic. I love the '30s comedies because they're allowed to be both comic and elegant, and the women are so complicated in them.

Michael Patrick King

#23. You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's a remaking of your own mind.

Orson Scott Card

#24. We must lift ourselves up, dust ourselfs off and begin the work of remaking America.

Barack Obama

#25. In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy.

James Surowiecki

#26. That is marriage, he thought, remaking yourself in someone else's image. And who knew where the truth of it began or would end?

Ashley Hay

#27. If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money.

James Surowiecki

#28. That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.

Stephan Jenkins

#29. What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vosch. You are remaking us. We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece.

Rick Yancey

#30. When a leader used his power over the ruled for the purpose of settling scores and inflating his self-esteem, for remaking society according to his own grand designs, class warfare and genocide ensued.

Dean Koontz

#31. I envy the happiness of others ... I envy the sense of belonging ... I seem always to be remaking myself.

Richard Eyre

#32. Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.

Parker Palmer

#33. When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring process, I wouldn't ever dream of it.

Park Chan-wook

#34. War is about remaking the world to suit the whims of some powerful group over the whims of some other powerful group. The dead are just the sparks that fly from the metal as they grind it down.

David Wong

#35. There's no remaking reality ... Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There's no other way.

Philip Roth

#36. Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.

Oscar Wilde

#37. I regard remaking a film as creating something again.

Bong Joon-ho

#38. The changes are part of my writing process. When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking.

Pawel Pawlikowski

#39. There is no valid teaching from which there does not emerge something learned and through which the learner does not become capable of recreating and remaking what has been taught.

Paulo Freire

#40. If it is indeed the business of imagination to make politics distrust itself - reminding it that its principles are not literal facts but constructs of imagination - it is also its business to encourage politics to remake itself by remaking its images of the good life.

Richard Kearney

#41. You are remaking the world, Noah. Drawing by drawing

Jandy Nelson

#42. Holiness is the remaking of our inward and hidden desires and affections, when the Holy Spirit of God dwells in our mortal bodies.

Oswald Chambers

#43. Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

Anne Roiphe

#44. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself ...

Boris Pasternak

#45. I've remained friends with all of them. We'remaking a fun kids movie and it's a comedy so we're just having fun and running around fighting these aliens.

Carter Jenkins

#46. The religions in my portfolio weren't useless after all, he thought, the power flowing from him and remaking the world. None of them were. They weren't all true.
But they all had truth.

Brandon Sanderson

#47. My family of friends has kept me alive through lovers who have left, enterprises that have failed, and all too many stories that never got finished. That family has been part of remaking the world for me.

Dorothy Allison

#48. We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

Umberto Eco

#49. I'd been DJ-ing in these clubs in N.Y. and I hated everything that was coming out. So I decided I would make it myself. People were making mash-ups or remixes, but I was extra bored, so I actually started remaking these records from scratch.

Mark Ronson

#50. I became really aware that when you're making a movie, you're making it three times. You're making it when you're writing it. You're making it when you're shooting it. And then you're remaking it again when you're editing it.

Mark Ruffalo

#51. My dream is remaking and reforming a more sustainable, more livable, delicious future.

Kate Orff

#52. In the progressive narrative, America is to blame, and the first offenders were the Founders themselves. The progressive conclusion is that the founding was "defective," setting up the progressive agenda to replace and move away from founding principles, what Obama called the "remaking" of America.

Dinesh D'Souza

#53. In remaking the world in the likeness of a steam-heated, air-conditioned metropolis of apartment buildings we have violated one of our essential attributes-our kinship with nature.

Ross Parmenter

#54. I didn't like The Wiz and it wasn't because black people were doing it. I didn't like The Wiz because it was a badly made movie off a classic. Why are you remaking something unless you have something better in mind?

Harry Belafonte

#55. My rule was not to paint things as they were. I wasn't copying; I was remaking them as my own.

Claes Oldenburg

#56. If the work of the city is the remaking or translating of man into a more suitable form than his nomadic ancestors achieved, then might not our current translation of our entire lives into the spiritual form of information seem to make of the entire.

Marshall McLuhan

#57. Time slows as his words light upon me, but in my chest something bursts into a million fragments that melt back together instantly, remaking me into someone entirely new.

Gennifer Albin

#58. One Corinthians 15, one of Paul's longest sustained discussions and the climax of the whole letter, is about the creator God remaking the creation - not abandoning it, as Platonists of all sorts, including the gnostics, would have wanted.

N. T. Wright

#59. It's not about being unmade; it's about remaking, one aching step at a time.

Anonymous

#60. Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for the 'remaking' of the Reich as they call it.

Adolf Hitler

#61. Some habits, in other words, matter more than others in remaking businesses and lives. These are "keystone habits," and they can influence how people work, eat, play, live, spend, and communicate.

Charles Duhigg

#62. It is highly likely that one of the two of them [ Donald Trump and Ted Cruz ] is going to be the nominee. This is a - look here, what is this - what this is really is a prescription for remaking the Republican Party.

Lawrence O'Donnell

#63. Unlike President Obama, President Nixon was a capitalist who did not believe in 'remaking' the very character of America.

Monica Crowley

#64. Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.

Fulton J. Sheen

#65. Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Edmund Burke

#66. If I had the remaking of man, he wouldn't have any conscience. It is one of the most disagreeable things connected with a person; and although it certainly does a great deal of good, it cannot be said to pay, in the long run; it would be much better to have less good and more comfort.

Mark Twain

#67. we can achieve happiness not by remaking ourselves, but by subverting unhappiness.

Jan Ellison

#68. Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.

C.S. Lewis

#69. I think 2tor has a chance of remaking higher ed in a really great way. If we do that, those investors will do well.

John Katzman

#70. The most far-reaching social development of modern times is the revolt of woman against sex servitude. The most important force in the remaking of the world is a free motherhood ...

Margaret Sanger

#71. The sun is born again from the womb of night," he said. "See how the light spreads, remaking the world.

Elizabeth Peters

#72. Those bastards at the casting agency said I couldn't play Edward Cullen. Well, I'm going to show them. I'm making my own movie. And I'm going to star in it.'
'You're remaking Twilight?'
'Yes.

Lola Salt

#73. The movers and shakers on our planet, aren't the billionaires and generals, they are the incredible numbers of people around the world filled with love for neighbor and for the earth who are resisting, remaking, restoring, renewing and revitalising.

Bill McKibben