Ralph Baer Quotes
If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.
Quotes to Explore
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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Nothing is absolute in security.
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Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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You don't have to get it right the first time.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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I'm not graceful.
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I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I've fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.
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When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and he returns the favor.
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I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
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I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention.
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If I'm going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can't just order you to do it.
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If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.
