John Knoll Quotes
'Baby's Day Out' is maybe not a great movie, but... No, I've enjoyed and learned things from every project I've worked on. That was an important step in my career at ILM.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them.
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'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar to readers.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.
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I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
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In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.
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I saw 'Brokeback Mountain' in a packed house in Chelsea, New York, when I was filming a Bollywood film there. Chelsea, being a predominately gay neighbourhood, had the most euphoric reaction. I saw couples holding hands and crying at the end. It was the most heartening viewing I have ever been to.
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I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.
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As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.
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I mean, I'm very serious with my kids about them comprehending the intricacies of global finance.
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By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.
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We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.
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I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.
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'Baby's Day Out' is maybe not a great movie, but... No, I've enjoyed and learned things from every project I've worked on. That was an important step in my career at ILM.
