Marshall Curry Quotes
In 2008, A.J. Schnack recruited Thom Powers to start the Cinema Eye Honors to recognize the artistry and craft that go into making documentary films.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.
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Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Our nation is today a powerful nation.
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I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home!
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We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
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Unfortunately, the mechanism for doing philanthropy in a structured way isn't yet in place in India. I already do a fair bit and support various causes such as education, sanitation, health. But selling costly drugs at affordable prices is philanthropy in itself.
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I was part of a show called 'Manifest Equality' in Los Angeles in 2010, and I realized there was a disconnect between people who are gay or have gay friends and are gay-friendly, and people who think they don't know any gay people.
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I believe in something.
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If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.
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I always feel that I compete with myself.
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I think that teaching coaches are the norm now.
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Along thy wild and willow'd shore.
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What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.
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As a society, we're failing. In so many ways. Such high incarceration rates of underrepresented minorities ultimately means we're missing out on great potential from black and Latino communities. Yes, there's immense talent brewing even within the most impoverished neighborhoods. Talent is universal, but opportunity is not.
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When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.
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Computers can do better than ever what needn’t be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly. (p. 109)
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I tend to do golf charity things because it's much safer and you don't get much chance of a broken arm or leg.
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I was genuinely lucky to have the professors I did, many of whom took a very humanist approach in teaching history that went beyond memorizing dates and battles and all of that - basically, looking at the life of individuals throughout history, aided by fascinating primary sources.
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There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.
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In 2008, A.J. Schnack recruited Thom Powers to start the Cinema Eye Honors to recognize the artistry and craft that go into making documentary films.
