John Muir Quotes
God never made an ugly landscape. All that the sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.
Quotes to Explore
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Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
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I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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When I'm directing, I noticed I'm not using my subconscious at all. I'm literally using the whole front part of my brain all the time. When you walk on the set, every moment you have to be there because something's going on that requires attention.
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Typically, if you buy a studio with a library, their library is pretty well licensed out many years in advance, so you are not really gaining access to the programming in that way.
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There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.
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There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories.
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There's war - there's always been war, as long as most of us have been alive. There have always been people being abused, there's always been horrible things in the world. Why are we outraged? We should just be quiet and figure it out, and work it out together.
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Nothing wrong with people getting shot, as long as it's the right people getting shot.
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I’m trying to transmit the visions of creativity and build institutions that are incredibly catalytic to their fields.
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I kind of live in this weird world where I am exposed to a lot of stuff, but then again I am not exposed to a lot of stuff.
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Few things in life can be so appalling as the difference between a dry antiseptic statement of a principle by a well spoken man in a quiet office, and what happens to people when that principle is put into practice.
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God never made an ugly landscape. All that the sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.
