Joel Silver Quotes
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I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.
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There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.
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My own personal goal is I just hope to still write songs and kind of let that sustain me as a job. If I could never have a 9-to-5 job, and making a living doing this, it'd just be incredible.
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Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.
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The abortion industry can try to improve its 'messaging' all it wants. But unless abortion advocates change their devotion to abortion-on-demand, the only message Americans will receive is that the abortion industry is only really interested in improving its bottom line at the expense of the most defenseless among us.
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I'm attracted to mysterious men. Every woman can relate to that, right?
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The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.
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A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.
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When I am shooting a film, and it has a big schedule, I make sure that I take a week off with the family. It gives you new energy.
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I'd love the opportunity to do something where I could really give my opinion, my feisty side - it'd be fun!
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These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.
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Nike was the essence of sports, transcendence through sports.
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Nothing happens unless first we dream.
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Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way.
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We have always underestimated the cell...The entire cell can be viewed as a factory that contains an elaborate network of interlocking assembly lines, each of which is composed of a set of large protein machines...Why do we call them machines? Precisely because, like machines invented by humans to deal efficiently with the macroscopic world, these protein assemblies contain highly coordinated moving parts.
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I think that if there's some innovative entrepreneurs out there who can help teach people how they can cost-effectively help themselves and their planet, I think everybody would be for it. That's going to be the challenge - figuring a way to get the marketplace and commerce to teach us consumers another way.
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I always liked creativity, whether it was to draw or sew - any creative assignment I was getting from school, or just on my own. I love people and behaviors, and I'm interested and fascinated by why we do what we do. And I wanted to be a therapist, to be honest. Maybe wirking in film combines the two worlds, in a not super-linear way, but it definitely feeds both my two passions.
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I want an explosion the size of Cleveland.
