Christopher Guest Quotes
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The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.
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All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.
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The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.
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When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.
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It's important that people come see our show, because we are performers. We wanted people to see that.
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I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.
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The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
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Are people like Tom Cruise in touch with their public? I doubt it. Footballers are more like the rock stars of yester-year: they are box office.
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I'm sorry; I ruin people's interviews because I just talk about rubbish.
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For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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What could a smartphone do for me that would make people go out and buy another one?
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Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
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The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, and you shouldn't, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive.
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There isn't a country I ain't touch in Africa. I just came back from South of France, I toured China, Japan, wherever you name, 60,000 people come out to see Fat Joe.
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
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I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
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People tend to think they know you when you come into their televisions every week. They think you are different than who you are. Don't believe everything you hear.
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Among the enduring truths I keep bumping into when there is the luxury of time to get to know people or institutions, is that their decisions are often made for what are not, strictly speaking, reasons of logic.
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People forget that in the early '70s, Saturday was the most-watched night of television of the week. It was where you found 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' and 'All in the Family.'
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During the Obama years, the Republicans have done an unprecedented amount of stonewalling on cabinet-and-below appointees. I would also argue that their war on judicial nominees has been way beyond what went before. Really, if the president nominated God to serve on the D.C. Court of Appeals, Mitch McConnell would threaten a filibuster.
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Anyone who is secure about herself shouldn't be threatened by the ads I do.
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It is impossible to talk with you. You always draw conclusions. No one knows. Say only this. Your sons had to go to war, and mine did not. No one knows if it is a blessing or a curse. No one is wise enough to know. Only God knows.
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People ask me, 'What's your next film?' And I never know.
