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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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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The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.
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'No one can make you successful; the will to success comes from within.' I've made this my motto. I've internalized it to the point of understanding that the success of my actions and/or endeavors doesn't depend on anyone else, and that includes a possible failure.
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A celebrity now is someone who's on the telly.
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Foo, a beautiful gal wastes her time gracin' up this swamp.
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I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.
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If Einstein was so smart how come people only call you 'Einstein' when you do something really stupid ?
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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.
