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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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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While the Assads are despotic, George H.W. Bush made the father an ally in Desert Storm, and Ehud Barak offered to return to Hafez Assad the Golan Heights in exchange for a peace deal.
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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I guess some kids around me had to grow up quickly, had all those problems. But I wasn't one of those kids, or around those kids, not at all.
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It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.
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Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking?
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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.
