Marvin Hamlisch Quotes
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First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
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There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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In the future, when people look back at the early days of Bitcoin, they'll say, 'It was so obvious that the ability to move money anywhere, instantly, at near-zero cost would be a huge success.
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I can easily sleep from nine to 13 hours a night.
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I like characters with character, not just pretty faces. Anyway, I think people can be both grotesque and beautiful at the same time. Look at Mick Jagger in the seventies. Look at Angelina Jolie.
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Our sport probably has the best history and tradition of being engaged in international competition.
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When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'
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I grew up in such a melting pot. There's more ethnicities in Queens than there is in any place on the planet. So you grow up knowing things about other cultures.
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Rebellion is always going to fascinate, as it's always packaged in a very safe way.
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I can tell you who I'd like to work with as far as rock legends. Definitely Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. Of course Linkin Park. Actually, I already worked with Travis Barker on a couple of things. Gotta let the drummer get some. Possibly Paramore, Hayley Williams.
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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.
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If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion.
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Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.
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Whereat some one of the loquacious Lot - I think a Sufi pipkin-waxing hot - 'All this of Pot and Potter - Tell me then, Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?'
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I see the photogram as being much more truthful and much more honest because it’s just recording light. There is no manipulation of that light, in the way that a lens manipulates light.
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In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.
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Don't compare yourself to anyone. Be happy to be the wonder unique, very special person that you are.
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You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.
