Doug Liman Quotes
I didn't grow up like Quentin Tarantino, watching esoteric art films at the video store. I'd go to the multiplex and see big, mainstream movies, and I'd go, 'I want to make one of those one day.'
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment - we're living inside commercials.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Knowledge is the distilled essence of our intuitions, corroborated by experience.
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Technology giants have taken advantage of tax codes written for an industrial age.
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In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort.
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I think one game we played the Oakland Raiders and Jack Tatum and I had an accident on the one-yard line. The only thing that Jack Tatum didn't do was wrap me up so I backed into the endzone backwards.
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The best way to make employees happy is to set realistic goals and achieve them. The big job is to make sure those small steps are pointing us in the right direction and demonstrate at the end of the year that they all add up to something pretty great.
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I didn't grow up like Quentin Tarantino, watching esoteric art films at the video store. I'd go to the multiplex and see big, mainstream movies, and I'd go, 'I want to make one of those one day.'
