David Puttnam Quotes
What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.
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There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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Fashion is one big family.
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Los Angeles is a really strange place. I grew up there like a normal kid, but it was not until I experienced other parts of the world that I realized how really and truly bizarre to the core it is - inside the homes of the powerful and damaged.
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Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'
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I don't go to the gym because I don't have time, but I do Pilates workout DVDs for 20 minutes or more every day at home.
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Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
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I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
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I was raised on a ranch in Wyoming, and I've been riding horses most of my life.
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I've always found the rain very calming.
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There's always been a confusion about my sensibility. 'Is he kind of edgy, or is he Carol Burnett?' I'm a little bit of a hybrid. I like to please, but I like dark stuff, too.
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Bring out the eyes.
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It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
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As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness.
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All of us must recognise that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st Century.
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We have to acknowledge that those past human right abuses existed and so we can't go forward without looking back, and understanding that was enormous problem, not just for America but also problem for the Indonesian people...
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If you go 90 yards in a hundred-yard race, you come last. Usain Bolt slows down for the last half a yard, but for 99 yards, he is that far ahead that he can. In our business, you can't be far enough ahead. It is such a competitive marketplace.
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All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
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Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
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There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.
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What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.
