Bill Budge Quotes
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I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.
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When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
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The devil made me do it.
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Netanyahu supports - and he truly does support - building a Palestinian state within Israel.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.
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As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.
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When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance.
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Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.
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There is a sort of genre of optimistic science fiction that I like, and I don't think there is enough of. One of my favourites is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, 'The City and the Stars.' It's set in this far future on Earth in this somewhat static society and trying to break out.
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Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer.
