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 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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Our world is increasingly interdependent, but I wonder if we truly understand that our interdependent human community has to be compassionate; compassionate in our choice of goals, compassionate in our means of cooperation and our pursuit of these goals.
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It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.
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A skyscraper is a machine that makes the land pay.
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The world is full of dumb paperwork.
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Real help is different. Real help, professionally or personally, consists of listening to people, of paying respectful attention to people so that they can access their own ideas first.
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Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them.
