David Lichtenstein Quotes
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Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.
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Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.
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I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.
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Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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I think that fame only goes to your head if you are not a real artist. If you are a real artist and a good person who loves what they are doing, you are going to be the same person.
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I certainly think that we can take steps to prevent this kind of weapon that is designed to create mass casualties from getting into the hands of the wrong people while still protecting the Second Amendment rights of the people of New Hampshire and making sure that we're protecting the ownership and use of legitimate hunting rifles.
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'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp.
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As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.
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Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.
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I hate when a movie just sort of ends and is so open-ended you feel like it wasn't finished. I appreciate leaving things up to the interpretation of the audience and letting them make decisions about where things will go in the future - but the director has to make a decision; otherwise it is sort of a cop-out.
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I definitely think what drives technology companies is the people; because in a technology company it's always about what are you going to do next.
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It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.
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Life: my favorite occupation.
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I tried documentaries.It wasn't the time for me. I was going to try to do the same thing, I did make a valiant attempt but it did not work - to do the same thing with documentaries that we had done with the book club [in 2011]. The zeitgeist wasn't ready. It just wasn't ready.
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If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.
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When you're in 45 markets, you take it on the chin here and there.
