Neil LaBute Quotes
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People take things so seriously.
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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My first film 'Saawariya' was a flop; I don't regret it.
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We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.
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My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.
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I have developed my most meaningful relationships online. None of them live within driving distance. None of them are about my own age.
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Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
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SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.
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I don't want to be a didactic voice. I like to ask more questions than I answer, just to get people thinking and to make it safe to access art.
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When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain, as much more exotic than I used to.
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Music was as natural as breathing in our house.
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Careless their merits or their faults to scan,His pity gave ere charity began.Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride,And e'en his failings leaned to Virtue's side.
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I cannot think of a system of law that dehumanizes & degrades women more than Islamic Law.
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Writers don't write about people they know. They write what they know about people.
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I have worked for a lot of really great leaders and mentors that I felt provided me, along with many of my peers - many of them women - opportunities.
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Obstruction of mobility, where it occurs, is one of the most serious and intractable problems of industrial society.
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I love the ath-leisure look, but I'm also super inspired by anime, and I love Japanese culture so much.
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The Lord needs women who will step forward in righteousness and say, 'Here am I, send me.'
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The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in 'Metcalfe's law'–which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants–becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's.
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My parents called me their wise little baby. I was mature when I was 4 or 5. My brother and sister were older, so I was raised by four adults.
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I see bits and pieces of me in all the characters in my films.
