Daniel Humm Quotes
The Rolling Stones seemed very loose and wild, but when you read about them, you realize that everything they did is very deliberate.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
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I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.
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Of course, when strangers see me, they're star-struck because of who I am, but my friends take me as a friend because I'm their friend - not because I'm a movie star.
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There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place... But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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The more hardcore conservative you are, the more tightly identified you are with defending the interest of capital as an interest of the system based on hyper-competition, the more likely it is that you vehemently deny climate change. Because if climate change is real, your worldview will come crashing down around you.
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
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Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.
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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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I think voters want somebody who understands their problems. You're right that they don't expect the president to fix everything. When he's wrestling with Congress and Wall Street and the rest of the world, they hope he'll be looking at things from their vantage point.
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My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.
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I always wanted to be an actor, even when I was a little kid. When I used to run away from home, I'd go to movies and sit all night watching Kirk Douglas. When I was 16, I tried getting into the Actors Studio, and they told me to get lost. I said 'I'll come back when I'm a man,' and I came back when I was 30.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.
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I think politics is the biggest lever of change in India.
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As long as I'm blessed and/or cursed to be alive, it's hard to see a time when I won't be making music.
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To some extent the shorter the writing assignment is, the harder it is to accomplish, and a blurb is 200 words max. Blurbs are meaningless, and actual people who are buying the books don't care about them at all.
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The Rolling Stones seemed very loose and wild, but when you read about them, you realize that everything they did is very deliberate.
