Brett Ratner Quotes
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I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
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I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
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My maternal grandmother made fantastic ox tongue with velvety roasted potatoes. She cooked sweet red cabbage and lovely cauliflower with butter and bread crumbs.
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In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
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An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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I swear on everything holy I do not know what's on the Internet about me.
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My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer.
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Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.
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I am not one to turn down macaroni and cheese, even late at night. I love Italian food. I love pasta... A refrigerator full of water and Gatorade? Honey, that's just not gonna happen.
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We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
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Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory.
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I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or 'incentives' for skill.
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Over the years I've had more and more of an association with Nashville.
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Nobody gets through life without experiencing some form of rejection, which is why everybody knows how awful it feels.
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I never want people to be repulsed with my pictures; I always want to attract people.
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I write about the period 1933-42, and I read books written during those years: books by foreign correspondents of the time, histories of the time written contemporaneously or just afterwards, autobiographies and biographies of people who were there, present-day histories of the period, and novels written during those times.
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If you stare long enough at anything, you will start to find similarities. The word “coincidence” exists in order to stop people from seeing meaning where none exists.
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I don't have any regrets.
