Douglas Sirk Quotes
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I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
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I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.
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I don't mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if I'm in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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We live in a digital world, but we're fairly analog creatures.
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My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
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I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.
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Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward.
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The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.
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The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip hop. I never used to be into hip hop, but there's hip hop in the food, soul food, there's hip hop in the cars.
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Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?
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That is why we wholeheartedly support the American-led effort to free the people of Iraq. And though we are a small country with a small military, we are proud to stand side by side with our allies in the fight to end the reign of terror in Baghdad.
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My interest in words and literature is always changing. And every day of work is different, and it doesn't feel laborious in the way that, say, washing dishes did. I'm quite happy to be doing what I'm doing, and I feel very lucky.
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Comic-Con has become more of a pop cultural festival, and to not be included feels like you're missing the biggest celebration of the year.
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I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.
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Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring - not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.
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The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life.
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I worked at 'POV' for five years before I told one person about my brother.
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It's a great honor to be selected as one of 'Foreign Policy''s Leading Global Thinkers for 2013.
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You really get to direct the movie three times when it comes to the action sequences and the set pieces.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.
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I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know.
