John Hillcoat Quotes
The one that I've always wanted - and I have Scott Rudin in my way blocking it - is 'Blood Meridian,' which Cormac McCarthy has offered to adapt into a screenplay.
Quotes to Explore
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When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.
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I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.
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I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
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Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.
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I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.
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Yoga is the one L.A. thing I actually like.
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
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Socialism, as I understand it, is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.
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We need the private sector to succeed, because if the private sector succeeds, America succeeds. Because it's not the government that produces jobs, it's the private sector.
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My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults.
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Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
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You know, I think you have to sound right singing whatever it is that you sing.
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During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair.
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History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.
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Through devotion, your family cares become more peaceful, mutual love between husband and wife becomes more sincere, the service we owe to the prince more faithful, and our work, no matter what it is, becomes more pleasant and agreeable.
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I know of no one who has done more for humanity than Jesus. In fact, there is nothing wrong with Christianity … The trouble is with you Christians. You do not begin to live up to your own teachings.
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You can tirelessly keep on reading the same author, revere, admire, praise him, exalt him to the skies, know and recite each of his sentences by heart, and yet remain completely unaffected by him, as if he had never demanded anything of you and not said anything at all.
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It was Apollo 8 that first showed us the tiny blue marble of Earth floating in the void of space, one of the great psychological shifts in human history. From out there, we can both appreciate and begin to solve the problems of our world in ways unavailable to us otherwise.
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Con las palabras que no he dicho he desarmado mis armas.
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The good thing about having a Republican primary is that the voters will decide our nominee - unlike the Democrats.
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How strange that they arrive at all, nights on planet earth.
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The one that I've always wanted - and I have Scott Rudin in my way blocking it - is 'Blood Meridian,' which Cormac McCarthy has offered to adapt into a screenplay.
