David O. Russell Quotes
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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When you are clinically diagnosed with depression as a teenager, sometimes people don't understand it. You feel like you should be happy, especially when you have a very lucky upbringing, and you blame yourself.
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I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.
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My kids are the most inspiring thing that pushes me. It used to be because they were born, and I had to take care of them. Now it's because my son raps, and he's better than me. So now I gotta keep up with him, you know what I'm saying?
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I would rather Google other people than Google myself.
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Open access is good, but we have to have ways and means where content that has been generated with a lot of effort and cost also gets the chance to monetise itself as is now beginning to happen in the West where some publications are really beginning to make their Internet revenue lines and subscription revenue lines quite significant.
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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'You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense, I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist.' - Pat Robertson, The 700 Club, January 14, 1991
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The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.
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Hegel is correct: we learn from history that we cannot learn from it.
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Haud igitur redit ad nihilum res ulla.
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I smoke marijuana every chance I get.
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From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.
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In Los Angeles, people dress with the deep and earnest hope that people will do nothing but stare at them.
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I say to everybody, love is what wakes you up in the morning, love is what makes you walk, and love is what makes you hope.
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You know me better than anyone, and you're my best friend. I don't think there's anything you could say to me that would lead me to believe that you're doing it just to hurt me. If there's one thing I've come to know about you, it's that you're not even capable of something like that. Why do you think I like spending time with you so much? Because you're a good guy. A nice guy.
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Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.
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I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.
