Douglas Trumbull Quotes
The diversity of content is now offered from streaming and downloading, so young people are really not going to theaters because they don't see any particular benefit.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.
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As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.
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They hate whom they fear.
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.
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A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
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Those of us in law enforcement must redouble our efforts to resist bias and prejudice. We must better understand the people we serve and protect - by trying to know, deep in our gut, what it feels like to be a law-abiding young black man walking on the street and encountering law enforcement. We must understand how that young man may see us.
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There is no great difference in reality between one country and another, because it is always people you meet everywhere. They may look different or be dressed differently, they may have a different education or position; but they are all the same. They are all people to be loved.
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What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.
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The diversity of content is now offered from streaming and downloading, so young people are really not going to theaters because they don't see any particular benefit.
