Harold Ramis Quotes
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Asking what I'd do without Loopt is almost like asking what I would do if I didn't have a smartphone because the feature set has become the norm for me.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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Coming from where I came from, I was born naked with no teeth. Now I have everything.
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Do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life?
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I've really enjoyed doing 'Annie Get Your Gun' and loved Neil Simon stuff like 'Chapter Two.'
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War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
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I'm more of a thriller-horror fan - things that could really happen. I don't like scary movies, the 'Saw' movies scare the crap out of me - I think I've seen two of them and I wanted to go crawl in a hole.
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The real world is far more hellish for all us than any fictional representation of it.
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I don't look too far ahead.
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Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-American foreign policy. Human rights, self-determination and an end to European colonization in the developing world, nuclear disarmament, international law, the World Court, the United Nations - these were all ideas of the progressive left.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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I plan on staying at Alabama for the rest of my career. I guarantee that I'll be here for you through it all, regardless of what happens.
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To be honest, you don't get the full picture when you read a script.
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When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.
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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.
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The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.
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It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV and I see someone trying to make me like them, acting cute or quirky or goofy, I'm not impressed. Don't act like America's watching you. Just latch onto your character. Characters are flawed. Be unlikeable. Be flawed. Be a person.
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If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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I interact with journalists all the time, and I note how they behave.
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If the only ideas you had were your own, you'd be very limited.
