Preston Sturges Quotes
It is probably a very good thing for a boy to learn to live with enmity, as opposed to an atmosphere of love and affection, as it hardens him and gives him a taste of what he is going to run into later in life.
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
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I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, 'What do I do?' he'd tell me. And that's what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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It is no longer important for me to be seen in every frame.
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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
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I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.
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I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.
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Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together. We are still too near to his greatness,' (Leo) Tolstoy (in 1908) concluded, 'but after a few centuries more our posterity will find him considerably bigger than we do. His genius is still too strong and powerful for the common understanding, just as the sun is too hot when its light beams directly on us.' (748)
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Poets often are dealing with history and are thinking about the way history moves across us, and we move in it.
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Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.
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Talk about your problems. There's no need to feel shy. It's always good to talk about issues that concern you.
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We only live once, since we are given the gift of life it should be our persistent endeavor to immortalize ourselves no matter what field of endeavor we choose.
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It is probably a very good thing for a boy to learn to live with enmity, as opposed to an atmosphere of love and affection, as it hardens him and gives him a taste of what he is going to run into later in life.
