D. W. Griffith Quotes
When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose.
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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Chipotles, which are dried jalapeno peppers, give out a terrific smoky flavour - they're warm, earthy and usually not too spicy.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
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During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
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For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them.
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
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When Joan D' Arc was asked by her judges why as a Christian she did not love the British, she answered that she did love them, but she loved British in their country. In the same way, we do not hate the Turks, we love them, but in their country.
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In the seventeenth century, it was held by some that inside a human sperm there was a minute human being - a homunculus - that was planted inside the womb. Development consisted of the miniature homunculus enlarging and passing through birth and on to maturity-just like inflating a balloon.
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I first became interested in 'great moments' when I read about the famous Feller-to-Boudreau pickoff play in the 1948 World series.
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When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose.
