Douglas Sirk Quotes
My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.
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What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.
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I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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The Wii U is pretty cool, and the thing that I'm most intrigued about it is it's the first gaming platform that actually is exploiting the second screen.
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I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling us what needs to be 'fixed' - I hate such a mechanistic word, as if our schools were automobile engines - ever asks the opinions of teachers.
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I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.
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In the plenitude of their relationship, Florentina Ariza asked himself which of the two was love: the turbulent bed or the peaceful Sunday afternoons, and Sara Noriega calmed him with the simple argument that love was everything they did naked. She said, 'Spiritual love from the waist up and physical love from the waist down.
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All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it.
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You want to stand out and be unique and do something different. I always try to zig when they zag - I guess it's a football term, but it applies to a lot of different areas of life.
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My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.
