Bob Thaves Quotes
Sure he (Fred Astaire) was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did, backwards... and in high heels.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!
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Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.'
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In a career, when you hit 40 and you've done a lot of this and that, you want to try some new things. I feel like that as a director, too, from one film to the other.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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Sure he (Fred Astaire) was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did, backwards... and in high heels.
