Callie Khouri Quotes
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I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.
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I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
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When people first meet me, they're always like, 'What are you?' as far as ethnicity. And I've been pegged as 'ethnically ambiguous.'
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It feels a little bit odd to me that you have some guys that have never lived in the United States that play for the United States because they were able to secure a passport. To me, that just feels like they weren't able to make it for their country and earn a living, so they're coming here.
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I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.
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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
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I feel nothing can push you till the time you want to get pushed.
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I told my parents that I will marry any girl they choose for me. They also told me that they are open to considering any girl I choose. We were very open about it throughout.
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What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.
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I'm a big champion of people doing things outside the system.
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I have laughter dates with myself, where I find comics on YouTube and watch them. Louis C.K. was my first laughter date a couple years ago. I'll also watch those videos of people doing idiotic things. That cracks me up.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.
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About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises that the girl gave me, which I don't do anymore, but they were good. And I don't smoke.
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I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.
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Whether it is salt farmers in India embracing solar power or wind companies creating tens of thousands of jobs in America, people are providing a vision for the clean energy future.
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The farewell between Hitler and Mussolini at the station was very affectionate. Both men were moved.
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Men looke not at the greatnesse of the evill past, but the greatnesse of the good to follow.
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The important thing for me as an artist is to keep going back to the page and doing what I do.
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All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the patient.
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When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me.
