John Hughes Quotes
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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I'm not a machista that tells his girl what she has to put on. I let her be herself.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.
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In my own experience, I've found that it's very difficult to make peace with women. We tend to be competitive and feel angry.
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When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.
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If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.
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Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.
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I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'
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I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.
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Fortified plant-based milks are delicious and contain all the calcium, protein, and vitamin D of dairy products but with none of the cholesterol, lactose, hormones, or cruelty found in cow's milk.
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A song in a musical works best when a character has to sing - when words won't do the trick anymore. The same idea applies to a long speech in a play or a movie or on television. You want to force the character out of a conversational pattern.
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Think about Medusa, with the snakes. If you shoot a movie in Europe, the financiers are three snakes, and they all have opinions. In Hollywood there are, like, 20 snakes.
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My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.
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I would love to play a superhero. I sometimes walk around thinking, 'If I were a superhero, what would my superpower be?'
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I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock.
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Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.
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I can conceive of no reason for all this administration of the higher to the lower, unless it be for the purpose of advancing our Father's children along the lines of eternal progression.
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Change is one of my favourite words.
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Being a great founder or early team member is a difficult dialectic - you have to be a bit overconfident, and a big ego isn't always a bad thing. To change the world requires pushing really, really hard and believing you and your team know something others don't.
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Generally in my films like 'Hearts of Darkness' or 'Picture This,' I try not to make myself a presence in the film.
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To look in the eyes of audiences and see the kind of naughty glee that they got with being on the inside, the audience becomes your co-conspirators.
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It's been about ten years since I've worked with actors who knew their lines!
