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 believe you have constructive accidents en route through a novel only because you have mapped a clear way. If you have confidence that you have a clear direction to take, you always have confidence to explore other ways; if they prove to be mere digressions, you'll recognize that and make the necessary revisions.
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We see them when they come to New York. They stay at my wife's apartment. We have quite a correspondence with them at all times. They play a very important role, the authors in the firm, because so much of the material we publish is suggested by them.
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Spain and the United States share the same values of democracy, liberty and fundamental freedoms.
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No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse as proconsul.
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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
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I'd rather have fewer spectacular theaters than tons of cheap little multiplexes.
