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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I take the harsh criticism along with the compliments.
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I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.
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When I was a kid, my dad kind of forced me to sing the third harmony for our little family group, and I just kind of hated it. I just felt so uncomfortable on stage, too shy.
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As an actor, you're constantly searching for that great character. Also, being a history buff and learning about people in our past and amazing things that they've done, I came across a book about Howard Hughes and he was set up as basically, the most multi-dimensional character I could ever come across. Often, people have tried to define him in biographies, but no one seems to be able to categorize him.
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I don't have any regrets.
