Douglas Trumbull Quotes
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If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
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People always thought I'd never get elected outside San Francisco; I was always more worried that I'd never get elected again inside San Francisco.
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The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.
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People, who accused me of practising a monopoly were wrong. The media fuelled rumours about my 'monopoly.' The first question I was always asked during interviews was about my supposed monopoly.
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Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.
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I was raised thinking that the world would end in 1975 - that Armageddon would come when I was 18 years old.
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I always was getting into trouble some way, because I was really good at lying when I was a kid.
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In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people.
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When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions.
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Obviously comedic styles do change.
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I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that.
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The religious ideal of Israel was the theocracy. But the theocracy meant the complete penetration of the national life by religious morality. It meant politics in the name of God.
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Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and I will show you one who will never be admitted there.
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There are no ghosts, my love. Death is final. The soul is that ineffable combination of memory and personality which we carry through life...when life departs, the soul also dies. Except for what we leave in the memory of those who loved us.
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Change doesn't come from staying in your safe space.
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If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being.
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Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.
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I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.
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For some reason, and for a time such as this, God has given me favor with kings and princes.
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I'd rather have fewer spectacular theaters than tons of cheap little multiplexes.
