Gene Siskel Quotes
They know they got the TV ad, they know they got the name recognition, they know that they can do a tie in with McDonald's or some fast food outlet and the money is just gonna flow in.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
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People feel that I became an actor because I am from a film family and that my parents were actors. But actually, the only reason I wanted to become an actor was to get away from studies.
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I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.
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I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.
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I grew up with a posh English accent, and all my aunts sounded as if they came out of a Merchant Ivory movie.
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I only ever give praise to elite fighters.
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In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate.
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It's not just the emotional, intellectual, and physical gaps between you and money. The real gap is always between what you think you want and what you actually want, deep down.
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They know they got the TV ad, they know they got the name recognition, they know that they can do a tie in with McDonald's or some fast food outlet and the money is just gonna flow in.
