Donald Sutherland Quotes
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There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.
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When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
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Moderation is actually the flip side of dieting, that is, imposed deprivation.
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I love all things Christmas.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.
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When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
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Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
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I worked with Michael Black and Michael Showalter on their show 'Michael and Michael Have Issues.' We did some stuff on that, but it ended up not getting picked up for a second season. There will be more stuff, but not right now. Michael Showalter and I are literally next-door neighbors. We see quite a lot of each other.
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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
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So many people’s school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn’t care for one or more of the sacred mutant outcroppings of High Modernism, and they concluded from this that Literature is all about impenetrable stuff that they don’t like. That damn Hemingway with his crazy free verse.
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If being in a band was my job, then I would quit. This is not a good job. A good job is in financial management.
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You ran away and left us to do the job that you could not do.
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I'm always having people come up to me and say I saved their life - but I don't remember it!
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But no, I love acting, it's a wonderful job.
