Elizabeth Taylor Quotes
If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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Don't underestimate your opponent, but don't overestimate them, either.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Republic holding a high rank among the nations of the earth have inspired me with feelings of the most profound gratitude.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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To me, form is not about scoring runs but how you feel about your game. Sometimes the runs are not there, but you know you are batting well, and that is good form for me.
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.
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One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.
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If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Why we should work? So without a healthy environment of this Earth, no matter how much money you make, no matter how wonderful you are, you have a bad disaster.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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Americans, among the marryingest people in the world, are also the divorcingest.
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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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Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.
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The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. ... For the political man, the value of a religion must be estimated less by its deficiencies than by the virtue of a visibly better substitute.
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Unlike yellow and brown people, the white does not usually believe he can get attention from matter or objects.
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If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.
