Douglas Trumbull Quotes
IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.
Douglas Trumbull
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
Ingmar Bergman
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
Randy Harrison
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The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
Wassily Kandinsky
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
Zhang Yimou
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
Dana Carvey
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
Lao Tzu
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
Harland Williams
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I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.
Rachel Kushner
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I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.
Dakota Blue Richards
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I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.
Garry Kasparov
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I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.
Damian Marley
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You just have to work super hard, and if you have a passion, that's the most beautiful thing in life, and you just have to bust out and do it, baby!
Kate McKinnon
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
Edmund H. North
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I part of this great nation because my grandfather was born here, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He took a horse, back in 1895, and ride it all the way down to Guanajuato, looking for his American dream. No penny in his pocket, only dreams in his head. And he was an immigrant coming from the States into Mexico. And he found his American dream in Mexico.
Vicente Fox
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A source of conflict for women everywhere is the pull between reproduction and production. Women worldwide have difficulty in balancing their dual roles as caregivers and providers.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.
Edgar Mitchell
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It never became an obsession for me to score at all costs. I've always said that I'm not a big scorer, I'm a worker.
Eden Hazard
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My preference is not to fight a Mexican.
Canelo Alvarez
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I still have the drive. I just want to push the barriers and see what I can do and how far I can go. I am just determined and driven.
Usain Bolt
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Theosophy was both a philosophy and a religion, preaching the doctrine of reincarnation as well as spiritual evolution.
George Pendle
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You have to force yourself to give up and to move onto something else. That's the way you grow as a writer, by trying new things and tackling new subjects. But it's difficult. There's part of you that doesn't want to give up because you realize that, in some way, you're surrendering.
Karl Iagnemma
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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
C. S. Lewis
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I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.
John Malkovich
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IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.
Douglas Trumbull