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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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
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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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I got a tattoo saying 'Made in England' above my foot to represent that, that I felt like a doll for so long.
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I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way.
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My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
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I've always loved 3D. In fact, as a kid, I was exposed to 3D at an early age because my grandfather was a specialist of 3D in cinematheques. And then my cousin put it in 'Science of Sleep' with toilet paper tube cities. But he was a specialist and I always wanted to do something in 3D.
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I'd rather have fewer spectacular theaters than tons of cheap little multiplexes.
