Chris O'Donnell Quotes
The only time it got really crazy was during 'Batman.' Anywhere I went in the world, people knew who I was. I was being offered these huge films that would have taken my career to a different level, and I decided to put on the brakes. I knew if I continued on that track, I probably wouldn't have gotten married.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
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I dream about doing a film about once a week.
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If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic.
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A lot of the artists that people equate my work to, I didn't find out about until after graduate school.
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Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People love their native Country, which Passion is the Original of all great Actions in a Common-wealth.... Architecture aims at Eternity.
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If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.
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We must be determined to get rid of factions within the ANC. We must get rid of divisions within the ANC.
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The only time it got really crazy was during 'Batman.' Anywhere I went in the world, people knew who I was. I was being offered these huge films that would have taken my career to a different level, and I decided to put on the brakes. I knew if I continued on that track, I probably wouldn't have gotten married.
