John Hughes Quotes
When I go to a concert, I can't believe that people pay lots of money to see a band that they obviously like and then they dance the whole time.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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I was on Kanye's Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one of the three 'dancers' who couldn't dance and was more of an accessory than an individual. Vanessa was pretty involved. Her style is about a lot of standing. It's very simple but haunting.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
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Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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I'm not really into weight training.
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In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.
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To make an album like 'Love Letter,' everything's got to be about love. Everything has to have a great feeling when you listen to it.
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The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.
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The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.
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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
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In the early 1980s, I wrote a book called 'The Complete Guide to Financial Privacy.' If I would write that book today, it would be a pamphlet. There is precious little privacy left.
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What fools indeed we morals are to lavish care upon a car, with never a bit of time to see about our own machinery!
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So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.
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It's really important to stand up for yourself and not always agree with what people say if indeed you don't feel that that's true.
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When I go to a concert, I can't believe that people pay lots of money to see a band that they obviously like and then they dance the whole time.
