Martin Scorsese Quotes
You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.
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I know what poverty is.
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I have tried to treat people on the other side civilly and look for common ground.
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Income taxes are very poor at generating income from automation because the gains are realized by technology companies that are experts at not paying taxes.
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People don't know and they shouldn't know that you work incredibly hard as an actor.
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You gotta understand, when moving images first started, people wanted sound, color, big screen and depth.
