Penelope Spheeris Quotes
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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Every wall is a door.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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I'm prepared for Amir Khan moving swiftly - or for whatever style he comes out using. I prepared with sparring, in the style similar to what he uses.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
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I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
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GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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I love working with women.
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The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.
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It seems like, yeah, of course - I always think my work is important, or I wouldn't risk my life for it.
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If you have done good, set your mind upon it so that it may be repeated over and over again. Allow yourself to be pleased by good. Accumulating good is joyful.
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These properties that get made into movies, some are easier than others. When they first said, 'Yeah, they're making a movie out of Lego,' I said, 'Lego what? What does that even mean?' And it's such a good concept.
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Uh, I do not wear a wig in 'Star Trek' like I did in 'Bottle Shock,' thank God. 'Bottle Shock' will be the last wig movie I ever do.
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It is the idea that it's a movie in a movie. So I did it.
