John Carpenter Quotes
I enjoyed 'The Avengers.' I couldn't do that kind of movie though. Superheroes aren't my deal.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
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People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
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On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!
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Why should Bollywood accept me? I should accept Bollywood. I don't care if Bollywood has accepted me. I don't seek acceptance. I don't need to live up to anybody's expectations.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
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My parents instilled in me a sense of self that I was more than just a diagnosis or a condition.
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We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.
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While the Forbes Council does offer some benefits and opportunities for members, the Council may want to be careful going forward to avoid the many pitfalls that befell Trump University.
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There are people who marry themselves. Somebody wanted to marry a tree. People marrying their pets.
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I think that the 'Bourne Trilogy,' it's definitely redefined the genre and took it to a new level. It was really great to be part of that experience. It is a very smart movie and a very smart script, great director, and great, you know, fellow actors.
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I remember the first scene I shot on 'The Blind Side.' I was with Sandra Bullock, and I kept trying to stop myself thinking, 'Oh my God, I can't believe I'm in a movie with her.'
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I enjoyed 'The Avengers.' I couldn't do that kind of movie though. Superheroes aren't my deal.
