A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.
It's so hard to actually get the money to make your movie. When you actually have the chance to do it, you have to be absolutely ruthless in order to make the best movie you can make.
A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth. Take this away and a democracy dies. The fusion of news and entertainment, the rise of a class of celebrity journalists on television who define reporting by their access to the famous and the powerful, the retreat by many readers into the ideological ghettos of the Internet and the ruthless drive by corporations to destroy the traditional news business are leaving us deaf, dumb and blind.
Maybe that, really, is as good a definition as any of an artist in the world: a ruthless person.
I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.
Once lead this people into war, and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street.
If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless.
Heaven's blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage.
War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.
The internet is ruthless. And people are very, very happy to let you know when they don't like something.
Let there be no mistake, Hamas is a ruthless terrorist organization.
The celebrity-making machine-photographers, paparazzi, press and stuff like that-can be ruthless.
Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless.
I have seen that there are a number of people who benefit from doing loving kindness meditation, either prior to or along with mindfulness meditation. It varies from person to person of course, but for many, their practice of mindfulness will bring along old habits of self-judgment and ruthless criticism, so it is not actually mindfulness.
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got it or not.
Don't ever make the mistake [of thinking] that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That's giving your intelligence much too much credit.
But at a certain point you've gotta be ruthless with the movie because you can have these great scenes, but they aren't specifically building the story that needs to be built at that moment.
I played Tina Denmark in Ruthless the Musical when I was 9 at the Theatre on Broadway in Denver.
The reaction that a ruthless dictator sets up in us either that of awe or pity according respectively as we react to him violently on nonviolently.
Life is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right.
