John Maynard Keynes Quotes
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird.
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Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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I would like to be the best in the world, but that's not the be-all and end-all. I want to have fun in my sport, and I want to take it as far as I can. Obviously, I do have big goals like that. But they don't take over who I am as a person and my family and everything else that's important in my life.
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Economic progress and better education have directly resulted in the birth of a class of voters who are better informed, very demanding and highly critical.
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There's not a whole lot of media interest in me other than just the records that I make.
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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
