David O. Russell Quotes
I think that everybody does hustle in order to survive. That doesn't mean lying - it's more about how you handle situations.
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Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it.
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We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
Nastassja Kinski -
When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they need to effectively execute these projects.
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I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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Washington presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and is often credited with its success. But he had no known part in drafting its provisions.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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The best leaders over the long term are those who have a sound home life.
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I'm going to be shaking my booty when I'm 55.
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While there are worldly singularities, there are Christian and salutary ones, too; and this singularity by which one is differentiated from the crowd who tread the broad path is what constitutes the straight and narrow path of the Gospels. ... Holy things will never be established or reestablished so long as we have this fear of appearing singular.
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This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.
Garry Kasparov
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No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.
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I feel like every time I take on a movie, it's important that the possibility of failure exists, and of the unknown, because it's a challenge to do something I haven't done before and something I have to try to work out.
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I'd been involved with stand-up before improv, so I already thought highly of myself as being a funny person. I never thought I wasn't funny.
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John F.Kennedy gave probably the greatest inauguration speech ever that first time, but I guarantee you when he first walked out there he was thinking, "Goodness gracious this is big and I better be up to the task."
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I think that everybody does hustle in order to survive. That doesn't mean lying - it's more about how you handle situations.
