Preston Sturges Quotes
The United States owes a great debt to its inventors. Far from being grateful to them, it places every obstruction in their way and makes it enormously difficult to secure a patent.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.
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I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
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Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.
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You need to support human development and human capital as much as possible. And we've had 25 years of programs, great programs. We supported 125,000 surgeries. We fund 15,000 scholarships every year for college and higher education. We gave bicycles for rural areas. We gave laptops.
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In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.
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The most important thing for us is investing and making companies great, and then they have all the options they want, whether that's to go public or stay private.
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All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
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The United States owes a great debt to its inventors. Far from being grateful to them, it places every obstruction in their way and makes it enormously difficult to secure a patent.
