Dino De Laurentiis Quotes
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The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.
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There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.
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I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.
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Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
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Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.
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If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.
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I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
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The best rappers I know are, like, air-conditioner men.
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Sleep is my best friend when we're shooting 'Game of Thrones' because there are very long days and intense scenes.
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I have crashed on a motorcycle that was going at 140mph, so I know what it feels like.
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Back in the day, when I started, you were still allowed to make mistakes. You got to make your mistakes in public, in a way. I think the world was a more forgiving place when I started my career, in the sense that we got time and space to develop as a writer.
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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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I'm only at the beginning of my career, but I feel successful in that I haven't sold out in any way, shape or form. I feel good about the choices I've made, and I don't feel like I've let go of any of my values.
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A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you.
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One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't make sense.
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It's funny how the ruthless, murderous gangster has really been romanticized by the media. I mean, I grew up watching the 'Godfathers' and 'Scarface,' and they were the coolest. They're just really interesting stories with great characters. They're rock stars.
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To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
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I think Eleanor Roosevelt always had a most incredible comfort writing letters. I mean, she was in the habit of writing letters. And that's where she allowed her fantasies to flourish. That's where she allowed her emotions to really evolve. And that's where she allowed herself to express herself really fully, and sometimes whimsically, very often romantically. And it really starts with her letters to her father, who is lifelong her primary love.
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I have two young girls, 8 and 10. They really keep me young.
