A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes
I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I want to get into movies, not just TV series.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.
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I think 'Rockstar' is more dear to me than any of my other films.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.
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Foreign policy can mean several things, not only foreign policy in the narrow sense. It can cover foreign policy, relations with the developing world, and enlargement as well.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom - it was almost overwhelming.
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In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.
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I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
