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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Top technologists have a tremendous capacity - and, therefore, a tremendous responsibility - to build things that make a positive impact on the world.
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The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately.
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It's a blue-collar city Manchester that's transitioning into a white collar place and people are getting priced out.
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I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.
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I felt that The Who had ended because we'd lost touch with our original Shepherd's Bush audience.
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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.
