Cameron Crowe Quotes
Well all kinds of movies that you wouldn't expect that I'd want to do, both bigger scale and smaller scale than the ones I've done.
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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I'm kind of lax about hair in general. I stopped shaving my armpits in part to experiment with pheromones, but also because I just didn't feel like shaving them anymore.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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It scares me to think that one day I'm not going to be in school anymore.
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
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Iran doesn't need one centrifuge. Canada has nuclear energy. Spain has nuclear energy. Switzerland has nuclear energy, and they don't enrich uranium. You don't need to enrich uranium in order to use nuclear energy. You enrich uranium in order to produce a bomb.
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Hardware ultimately is a scale game, and it's a differentiation game. If you are literally selling products that are completely undifferentiated, like x86 servers, why would anybody pay you for that?
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.
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I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.
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Even as an 18-year-old, I had to grow comfortable with my leadership style, which is that I was really impatient with under-motivated people - extremely impatient, to the point where I was counterproductive as a manager of underproductive people. And that hasn't really changed. If people need to be motivated, I'm no good.
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Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.
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Truly, my first love.
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I was really worried that sitting at home by myself in front of a computer was going to make me crazy.
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The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.
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Well all kinds of movies that you wouldn't expect that I'd want to do, both bigger scale and smaller scale than the ones I've done.
