Paul Thomas Anderson Quotes
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While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.
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When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
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My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.
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The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
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The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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I know when you're in the business of cover sports, you look for 60-minute games and a result. It's never that simple.
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One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.
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I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I never worked as a journalist for one moment.
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You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.
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I love the Western genre. In fact, one of my dreams is to play a cowboy on screen, like Clint Eastwood. I don't think it's going to happen, but you can always hope.
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I'm crazy, and I don't pretend to be anything else.
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I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration.
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Pre-history tells us that our species used to be a hunter-gatherer society. This means that the job of raising a family was split 50-50 between the men and the women - the man's 50 percent share was to sit in the woods with a sharp stick, waiting for something to hunt to wander by, and the woman's 50 percent was to do everything else.
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Radicalization is very easy when you mock what people hold dear.
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Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.
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My parents raised me to believe that when one door slams in your face, turn around because there's probably another door opening up somewhere.
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I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.
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All my favorite movies are American movies since I was a kid.
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You never find yourself until you face the truth.
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I love to swim for miles; I could just go back and forth.
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They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.
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I've never been a fan of whimsical or confusing storytelling.
