Brett Ratner Quotes
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I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.
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I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the acquisition of communications on a planetary scale.
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I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened.
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What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.
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I don't always have the best eating habits. I like butter and ice cream. There are days when I should work out and I don't. But it's never too late to change old habits.
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I have been into social work since 45 years, and at an average, every day for one or two hours, I have been engaging in social discourses. It is not a small thing.
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Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in.
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You paint what you know best; what you went through as a teenager and child. My world is the one I got to know in Medellin; I never paint anything else other than that.
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The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.
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The song 'What Goes Up' was inspired as I was playing the piano and reminiscing about the Spaceship One launches I witnessed in the Mojave desert. It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized.
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I was living in a small town in Indiana working as a telemarketer and a vacuum salesman. I was really bad: the vacuums seemed to always be falling apart. Every time I did a demonstration, I'd say, 'This is the material the astronauts used on Apollo 13.' And no sooner had that come out of my mouth, something would malfunction.
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Basketball players aren't always the best dressers.
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American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions.
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I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
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Use of energy-efficient LEDs, pumps, fans, and air-conditioners will save power consumption and reduces the peak load.
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The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.
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America is very decentralized in how it supports the humanities, unlike European countries where virtually everything stems from the central government.
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The work of art is, after all, an act of faith in our ability to communicate symbolically.
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Only a dreamer or a fool would pick a stock at random and expect it to take off like a space ship from its launching pad. Certainly this has happened - about as often as a dime-store clerk has become a Hollywood star or a boy born in a log cabin has been elected President of the United States - just often enough, that is, to keep alive the Great American Dream.
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I'm not going to turn down an Oscar, but I'm not strategizing for one.
