James Goldsmith Quotes
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When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist.
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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I'm a huge advocate for human rights and cultural rights. I stand up for minorities and will always continue to do so.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.
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There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But the truth of the matter is, to my knowledge, I have never been overlooked or turned down for anything that I wanted to do that was being offered to me.
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When I hear from people who are struggling to put food on the table, I understand because I've been there.
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The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
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You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.
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You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way.
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When a man marries his mistress it creates a job opportunity.
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I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining.
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My mandate to myself since I've been involved in these movies was 'make every single movie different, so there's never 'X-Men' fatigue.'
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I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.
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The press keep asking me, 'What was your biggest mistake?' But if I had made a big mistake, they'd all be writing about it, wouldn't they?
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The only time I think about life beyond F1 is when I contemplate becoming a dad. But there's no way that's going to happen while I'm still racing. To be successful in F1 you need to be very selfish in lots of ways and you're away from home for long periods. That's not the kind of father I want to be.
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I am the last President of the United States!
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Every time I say anything, people seize on it for all kinds of meanings so I am uncomfortable with talking. At least this way, I can think about the answers and phrase them carefully.
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I was born just after the end of World War II, and with my friends in our little suburban backyards in New Jersey, we used to play war a lot. I don't know if boys still play war, they probably do, but we were thrusting ourselves into recent history and we were always fighting either the Nazis or the Japanese.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them.
