Paul Verhoeven Quotes
I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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I really have been so, so blessed with all my leading men.
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I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.
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Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
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I would never try to invalidate someone's opinion of something or the feelings something makes them feel.
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The world is my workshop. It is not my home.
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I have been a long-term environmental advocate for the agriculture industry. I have particularly tried to push carbon farming or carbon sequestration.
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I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.
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Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.
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The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.
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Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.
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I never started collecting figures or anything like that because I'm slightly completist with things, so if I start down a path, I'm worried where it'll end up - i.e. With a wall of something!
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I was raised to believe that America was a force for good in the world and that it should take its leadership role seriously.
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I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
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'Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind' was born out of my own journey of self-discovery within both my personal and professional life.
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Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.
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Humility has to do with trying to be a vessel of purposes you're content to understand as not your own.
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When you're down and out, there's no meaner place to live than Hollywood. You can get away with your embezzlements and your lies and your murders, but you can never get away with failing.
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When I started studying architecture, people would say, you know, 'Can you tell me why are all modern buildings so boring?' Because, like, people had this idea that in the good old days, architecture had, like, ornament and little towers and spires and gargoyles, and today, it just becomes very practical.
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The experience of celebrity is gradually being democratized.
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I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.
