Daniel Ortega Quotes
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
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As somebody who makes his living in the movie business and wants to contribute to it, I think that the best chance I have of doing that is just consistently working with great directors.
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Thus, whether it be wit or beauty that a man’s in love with, there are no great hopes of a lasting happiness; beauty, with all the helps of arts, is of no long date; the more it is , the sooner it decays; and he, who only or chiefly chose for beauty, will in a little time find the same reason for another choice.
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I have a lot of cultures within me - I'm basically chop suey.
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I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to go to Britain's Central School of Speech and Drama, and my dad and I had a few tense words about that. He wanted me to go to British drama school.
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For me, getting off the sidelines means women making a difference by letting their voices be heard on the issues they care about.
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Conditions are ripe for triumph. We will win. And we will wield great power here.
