Jean-Marie Messier Quotes
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I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
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You either are or you're not.
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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I have to earn re-election. That's the way I see it.
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When I'm playing a team sport, it's not about one individual, it's about everyone, from me to the other 23 people who were there, to all the support staff who've worked very hard behind the scenes.
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Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
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Kids should be naughty and go through that rebellious phase I didn't have.
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You just can't help but sort of think that your life and your career are going to go straight up, up, up.
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Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.
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The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
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In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.
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I never travel without my sketch book.
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We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.
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Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.
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The dynamic range of a digital camera is not that much greater than film, particularly if you push the ASA a little bit.
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In 1986, Microsoft and Oracle went public within a day of each other, and I recall telling one of my colleagues that the software business will become big. So I started working with software companies in the mid-'80s and never turned back.
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You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions.
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The fact is I don't drive just to get from A to B. I enjoy feeling the car's reactions, becoming part of it.
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You know, I don't want to stand out too much.
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I was very conscious of the film industry - a lot of people, neighbors, worked in it. I actually grew up doing a bit of extra work myself. I was homeschooled, and it was a way that I could make money. My parents let us do these jobs, and I never got very far, but I was much more interested in what everybody else was doing, and I liked being on set.
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I missed so much of the Swinging Sixties by working. From 1961 to 1969, I got up at 4.30 A.M., a car came for me at 5.30 A.M., and I was taken to our studio at Teddington or Elstree, and we filmed until I got home at 9.30 P.M., five days a week.
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I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley.
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I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one.
