Doug Liman Quotes
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.
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We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I think that doesn't make you a well-rounded person or artist. You have to be able to take the good with the bad and have opinions on things!
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We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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I was the hallway clown in high school.
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If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.
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I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
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I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one who went out and earned, and I've never felt unequal in that way.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time.
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Planned Parenthood is not the front door of women's health. Not here in the 6th District, not in the state of Georgia, and not around the country.
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I still have my bad days when I think I'm not getting everything I deserve. But those pass quickly once my Mother gets on the phone and says, 'listen, we used to eat rocks and walk 80 miles a day to school.
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In the real world, I kind of, like, thrived a little bit. The things that were awkward about me at school, like being hyper passionate... I realized, 'Oh I'm my own person, and I have my own idiosyncrasies and nuances that I don't mind.'
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If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it.
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I went to USC film school, briefly, which is a very traditional film school.
