Martin F. Nolan quote: "[Television executives] are afraid to advertise condoms that could save lives, but do not blush about telecasting a National Geographic special on President Reagan's pelvic plumbing."

If the Barons of Bad Taste known as network executives believe in chastity as an anti-AIDS measure, ...
MARTIN F. NOLAN

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.
MARTIN F. TUPPER

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true op...
NOLAN RYAN

My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

The really best acting is children in a playground or in a backyard. They're just lost in their ...
NOLAN NORTH

Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists out...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

We're going to remember the good times.
AIDAN NOLAN

You like to think the best of people. It's sad, just really sad, that people would take out their fr...
AIDAN NOLAN

Without a doubt, it makes you appreciate what you have.
AIDAN NOLAN

I consider myself really lucky to be here talking.
AIDAN NOLAN

People were going left, right and center. No one stood a chance.
AIDAN NOLAN

But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a ...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

You know when Hollywood does a great big blockbuster that really wraps you up in a world, and lets y...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and s...
NOLAN GOULD

I always loved both 'Breakout' and 'Asteroids' - I thought they were really good gam...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. 'Alien', '...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the
person who gets out of the showe...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot ...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.
NOLAN BUSHNELL

There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart...pursu...
MICHAEL NOLAN

Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. T...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

I'm not affiliated with either Wikileaks or Anonymous - of course, it's not like I would tel...
JONATHAN NOLAN

People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ...
JONATHAN NOLAN

Because Naughty Dog relies on their facial team to hand animate the faces of each game character and...
NOLAN NORTH

I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonder...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negat...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.
NOLAN RYAN

The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

But 'Memento' was so successful, such a huge cult hit, almost on the scale of a large film. ...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

I consider my job as a screenwriter to pack a script with possibilities and ideas - to create a feas...
JONATHAN NOLAN

I studied journalism at The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. I did my graduate work at Em...
NOLAN NORTH

We have been crafted by disaster to push out to the utmost horizon to find out what's on the oth...
JONATHAN NOLAN

I don't believe that anyone can see the Grand Canyon area for themselves and not know that we ha...
NOLAN GOULD

I am a person who believes in the good of people and who may have had things influence them to a cer...
NOLAN NORTH

I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rica...
NOLAN RYAN

You wanna build your IQ higher in the next two years? Be uncomfortable. That means, learn something ...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

We had some really powerful technology - Atari always was a technology-driven company, and we were v...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

In 1980, Atari was bringing in around two billion dollars in revenue and Chuck E. Cheese's some ...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture.
NOLAN BUSHNELL

Everybody copied Atari products. So we started messing with them and it was fun. We bought enough ch...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school d...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

When I was running Atari, violence against humanoid figures was not allowed. We'd let you shoot ...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

Selling Atari when I did - I think that's my biggest regret. And I probably should have gotten b...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of m...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, th...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

When we did the first 'Uncharted,' we weren't able to capture the audio with the perform...
NOLAN NORTH

I'm proud of the versatility I've had since I was in high school, getting in trouble for all...
NOLAN NORTH

I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

I'm fascinated by artificial intelligence.
JONATHAN NOLAN

For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting vi...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

Learning ballroom dancing is great for your brain. But it only works for three to six months. After ...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England th...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. He's not from another planet...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually do...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn&...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

Atari showed that young people could start big companies. Without that example it would have been ha...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation w...
NOLAN RYAN

I revel in my anonymity. But when I'm at a specific event and gamers are there, they'll reco...
NOLAN NORTH

I believe we should be good custodians of the Earth.
JONATHAN NOLAN

I am going to spend my time today just thanking the people that played a role in my career, because ...
NOLAN RYAN

It's an incredible music program that local families can take advantage of without having to travel....
BRIAN NOLAN

I saw two 80-year-olds fighting over it at Sam's,
BRIAN NOLAN

We're not moving too fast with getting anything accomplished. It's frustrating, but it is what it is...
BRIAN NOLAN

I feel good. But the community, they're not handling it real well.
BRIAN NOLAN

I try to limit my time with Michael Davies to as little as possible per week, and he is pretty good ...
KATIE NOLAN

I'm a big, big, big techno dork.
JONATHAN NOLAN

I don't think there's room in video games for people to bring an ego. It's very frustrat...
NOLAN NORTH

I've always had a penchant for dialects. I remember getting detention and being told, 'Have ...
NOLAN NORTH

When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

One of the big concerns I have is that most of the HR departments in a lot of companies are hiring a...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

I believe there are Steve Jobses all around us. Really, what is happening is that they're being ...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

In terms of long-term durable storage, the human mind, paradoxically, is pretty good, but it's v...
JONATHAN NOLAN

In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other...
TOM NOLAN

Every one who has taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries ...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

I wouldn't consider doing a Batman sequel unless I felt like it could be a great film, a film even b...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

I studied English Literature. I wasn't a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they'r...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

Somehow he just really fit the bill and had that fire in his eyes that made you believe this guy cou...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

I've been in navigation systems, robotics, restaurants, communications systems, touch screens, a...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

You believe there was a conspiracy between Ms. Buchanan and Ms. Crouch?
VINCENT NOLAN

Yeah, it's odd when you look back at your own work. Some filmmakers don't look back at their...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery wi...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

The subtle generational cues that make one thing cool and another uncool aren't always obvious t...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

Each one goes at their own pace, and can learn and be re-taught if they need to or move ahead a litt...
BARBARA NOLAN

You are not just a funny person or just a journalist. Most people are hybrids of having a smart opin...
KATIE NOLAN

(My daughter) got real concerned about why our house smelled like poo poo.
JENNIFER NOLAN

I guess I'd like to be known for being an innovator, fostering creativity, thinking outside the ...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

One of the things I love about working with my brother is that there's a commitment there - an u...
JONATHAN NOLAN

In 'Uncharted,' we do the scenes the same way you would do a film or television show. The mo...
NOLAN NORTH

Basketball is all about decisions and we took the best ones, especially from the third quarter on.
NOLAN RICHARDSON

I'm sure you're used to hearing that when people get to Long Island for the first time, it&#...
KATIE NOLAN

A lot of what is wrong with corporate America has to do with a culture filled with antibodies traine...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

We encountered a significant amount of questions about the project.
WILSON NOLAN

I'm here to pass the baton, so to speak, to some of these new inductees, many of which are guys that...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

The board of education put its best offer on the table tonight.
BILL NOLAN

It is simply a showcase for new products, technology, design, and building techniques.
BILL NOLAN

The technology, of course, with all these things changing fast, making the ability, whether it's ina...
BILL NOLAN

Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book tha...
JONATHAN NOLAN

The thing with computer-generated imagery is that it's an incredibly powerful tool for making be...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

[The film's title star, Christian Bale, told me in June that he'd signed a multi-picture contract. W...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

Young adults love to play games and they're thirsty for social interaction, but a lot of bar and...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

It can happen. But based on our current situation, local scale and large scale, probabilities of rec...
NOLAN DOESKEN

pipes, not arbiters of content.
NOLAN BUSHNELL

It's a great project that allows a recurring revenue stream to happen in bars, restaurants and airli...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

Sonic and I were chatting back before we got on and he was telling me how proud he was to be inducte...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

A good interviewer is able to ferret out what the applicant is really passionate about. Ask them wha...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

We're going to call it the 'west side story' because there is a lot to tell.
SPARKY NOLAN

I guess you can say we did take a good whipping to some degree...A year ago Atlanta got beat by Kans...
MIKE NOLAN

There is no question electronic communication is overtaking print. Students can find out about a col...
CHARLES NOLAN

We had some nice shots in the first half, but definitely in the second half we needed to take more s...
WENDY NOLAN

It's something we as a healthy population can do fairly easily.
BARBARA NOLAN

A patient can be searching and searching to find a match and not find one because there is no match....
BARBARA NOLAN

Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

I came into the game when I broke into the major leagues, the minimum salary was seven thousand doll...
NOLAN RYAN

For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many y...
NOLAN RYAN

I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

You have to be mentally strong not to give up any points. You use your moves that stick in your mind...
NOLAN TICMAN

Yet the greatest temple in existence is not one found on a mountain top or in a jungle, it is far mo...
NOLAN BANKS

Any mind that bears much wisdom, shares a body with a heart that bears many wounds.
NOLAN BANKS

Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything else.
NOLAN BUSHNELL

You believe the records and charts were stolen by Ms. Buchanan and Ms. Crouch?
VINCENT NOLAN

I watch a lot of Disney. I want to catch 'Hannah Montana Forever.'
NOLAN SOTILLO

I went by Kyle, and I made friends on the team as Kyle. It went on for a pretty long time, until I w...
KATIE NOLAN

It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy.
NOLAN RYAN

I've found a lot of the thinking in America is that a lot of people become actors to become famo...
NOLAN NORTH

But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to ...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
NOLAN BUSHNELL

The saddest death I think that happens in a persons life, is not the one that happens in old age, no...
NOLAN BANKS

Our customers embrace new technologies. When we offer SMS confirmations to a phone and mobile accomm...
RAY NOLAN

In retrospect we should have gone to the public much sooner than we did.
WILSON NOLAN

Not very excitable, but commentary at uefa.com.
DAVID NOLAN

My schedule is usually pretty busy, so when I wake up in the morning, first thing I usually do is tu...
NOLAN GOULD

I have no doubt we'll figure out a solution.
MICHAEL NOLAN

In being human I was a part of this world, yet in being a soul I was apart from it all the same.
NOLAN BANKS

Its our eyes and minds that allow to see difference, but its our humanity that truly allows us to se...
NOLAN BANKS

I think the worst part of growing up is the realization that there will come battles in this life th...
NOLAN BANKS

A man is what he gives to this world.
NOLAN BANKS

She had a huge bump, but she wasn't sure what hit her. It swelled up when she was out there. She did...
GINA NOLAN

My dad was in the military. It was difficult sometimes, because he would have to be away a lot, and ...
NOLAN GOULD

It's a plus. Anytime you've been somewhere and supposedly some of the other teams probably have neve...
NOLAN RICHARDSON

We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.
NOLAN BUSHNELL

What man in his 40s would not like to look in the mirror and find Nolan Ryan?
NOLAN RYAN

Safety is a big part of preparing my ranch for the busy times ahead, and preventing injuries is a go...
NOLAN RYAN

He was a very aggressive-type player. He always took the extra base. You knew to get him out you had...
NOLAN RYAN

The demographics of the state allows for another team. Given the projected growth of the state and t...
NOLAN RYAN

It's hard for some of them to just walk away, ... For most of the investors it is a small investment...
NOLAN RYAN

Only two teams finish the season with a win -- the team that wins the state title and the third-plac...
GINA NOLAN

It is a fool who seeks to build a monument for the greatest of his ancestors, for all he had to do w...
NOLAN BANKS

You claim it was ineffective and inefficient?
VINCENT NOLAN

Such was the illusion of pride, for the fool sees it as the crown upon his head, while the wise sees...
NOLAN BANKS

I felt in the first half that Burr and Burton definitely stepped to the ball more than we did. But i...
WENDY NOLAN

They (Crouch and Buchanan) had the unmitigated nerve to stand up to Dr. Reddy's illegal activity and...
VINCENT NOLAN

We are both disappointed and surprised.
BILL NOLAN

The quality of racing continues to excel with starters increasing to 1496,
CHRIS NOLAN

We are in the awkward position of not being able to expand our trainer base, whilst training facilit...
CHRIS NOLAN

And that's the point of the final scene. That [fighting evil] is not going to be easy. It's going to...
CHRIS NOLAN

It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy.
NOLAN RYAN

My job is to give my team a chance to win.
NOLAN RYAN

We do it both as a business and out of love of the game of baseball,
NOLAN RYAN

I can't think of anything more humiliating than losing a ballgame to a guy who steals home on you. I...
NOLAN RYAN

This is a deeply concerning issue and we hope that through sharing information between our services,...
CHRIS NOLAN

To deliberately damage or harm any holy book, any book really for that matter is wrong. They are rec...
NOLAN BANKS

Batman is positive, but I believe that, in the first couple of years, he's going to find an increasi...
CHRIS NOLAN

I had a great time working with him. We would take a lot of takes to try things out.
CHRIS NOLAN

We continue to lobby for a synthetic training track and although the advised installation has been p...
CHRIS NOLAN

We were stunned and disappointed when the union came back (with an offer) that went backward from wh...
BILL NOLAN

I think Roger is one of the fiercest competitors I've seen, ... It reflects in the way he approaches...
NOLAN RYAN

My ability to throw a baseball was a gift. It was a God-given gift. And I am truly appreciative of t...
NOLAN RYAN

Loyalty is a like a plant, it cannot be nurtured once, if it is to survive. Every now and then it mu...
NOLAN BANKS

Perhaps we become adults, the moment when we give up and let go of the type of people we wanted to b...
NOLAN BANKS

The problem of removing the chains of ignorance, is that they are invisible to the eyes of those the...
NOLAN BANKS

And she didn't once say anything about this being a sin. It used to be I got the word sin slapped in...
HAN NOLAN

Am I optimistic or pessimistic? I'd have to say I'm anxious.
JOHN NOLAN

Am I optimistic or pessimistic? I?d have to say I?m anxious.
JOHN NOLAN

Through the ages men has sought to conquer power and tame it, foolish are those that walk that path,...
NOLAN BANKS

I eventually became an actor, starting with doing stand-up comedy in New York and then theater where...
NOLAN NORTH

There are but two kinds of men that will walk this earth, those that serve a human, and those that w...
NOLAN BANKS

Yet in the end wealth proved treacherous, for in life it was a blanket of warmth, yet when the coldn...
NOLAN BANKS

And to play as long as I did and to have a family you have to be very blessed and I was with my wife...
NOLAN RYAN

'Garbage Time' was the name I came up with. Midnight was my decision. Were they the right de...
KATIE NOLAN

I'm the only one who was predicting the Nintendo Wii would beat Sony's PlayStation 3.
NOLAN BUSHNELL

During one of the big snows last winter, Barbara had a handful of us over on Friday night, and Satur...
WILL NOLAN

They introduced themselves and sort of told us they were OK with us by describing all the diversity ...
WILL NOLAN

My sweet spot is figuring out how to make a product that people love and how to refine it to make th...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something tha...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

I have always been a big fan of the character and am more of a moviegoer than a comic book guy. Ther...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

The thing we don't want to do is overstate the benefits, but there is all kinds of proof that ex...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

But I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the ide...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

The problem with big films is they snowball very rapidly and you can never pull back. It's a pip...
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

And when I went to Houston, they had a conditioning coach by the name of Gene Coleman. And that was ...
NOLAN RYAN

It took me a while to figure that out and to realize what a gift that I had been given. And when I f...
NOLAN RYAN

I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a uniq...
NOLAN BUSHNELL

There was a time when all the actors were saying, 'We should get residuals on videogames.' I...
NOLAN NORTH

I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the s...
NOLAN NORTH

Every game is critical right now, because you are playing for your seed in the MAAC Tournament. We s...
DIANNE NOLAN

[Television executives] are afraid to advertise condoms that could save lives, but do not blush about telecasting a National Geographic special on President Reagan's pelvic plumbing.

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