Charlton Heston Quotes
The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
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If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.
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Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
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Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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Seth Green, he and I are trying to figure out how this all came about. Because we don't remember what came first, the chicken or the egg, no pun intended. But I don't remember what came first, 'Robot Chicken' or our friendship, because we've known each other for so long.
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I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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My views line up with Mick Mulvaney's views pretty much exactly.
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I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
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There's a fun, nostalgic aspect to Legos - people connect to the art on a different level. But it's also a medium that lets me design anything I can imagine. I especially enjoy creating curvy forms using rectangular pieces. Up close, you notice the sharp angles, but when you back away, the corners blend into curves.
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In the early eighties, there were a lot of artists involved with the music scene. All those young artists, before their careers took off, were into music. Robert Longo used to play some guitar. He had a band for a while. Basquiat had a band. I mean, people were always trying to mix music and art - in fact, I'm guilty of it myself.
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I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.
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I like switching gears. I'm kind of a chameleon.
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Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.
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The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.
