George A. Romero Quotes

For me, tribalism and religion are basically the big reasons we're in trouble. Patriotism, tribalism, and religion.

George A. Romero

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• Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.

  

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• My biggest concern with the whole deal with 'Total Divas' and with WWE - and, you know, they want you to be engaged with social media and all this kind of stuff - I don't want to live my life to entertain other people.

  

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• There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.

  

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• The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.

  

  Victoria Gotti
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• And all for love, and nothing for reward.

  

  Edmund Spenser
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• Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

  

  Tacitus
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• I've always felt a great affinity with music. I've felt myself to be more of a musician than anything else, though I'm not proficient in any one instrument. But I think I have a musical sense of things... and writing seems to me to be a musical experience - rhythmically and in many other ways.

  

  Sam Shepard
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• If you look at 2009, why did the recovery happen? Recovery happened because somebody in the world's largest economy opened the tap: the U.S., followed by Europe and now Japan.

  

  Uday Kotak
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• I always believe that one can't interfere in another's work. Once I start work on any film, I surrender myself completely and blindly follow the director.

  

  Mahesh Babu
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• Rwanda can be a paradise again, but it will take the love of the entire world to heal my homeland. And that's as it should be, for what happened in Rwanda happened to us all - humanity was wounded by the genocide.

  

  Immaculee Ilibagiza
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• Any movement at all that reduces disease, that reduces overdoses, that reduces property crime, that reduces violent crime, is good.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
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• So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

  

  Madeleine Albright
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• Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
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• I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.

  

  Olivier Megaton
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• He's just really unlikely as a hero - which makes him so brilliant, I think, because he's like this mad professor.

  

  Karen Gillan
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• I created myself, and I'll attack anybody I feel like.

  

  Edward Albee

• I was basically a dork that hit the books and liked to build things and did all of the things that you weren't supposed to do to be popular. But somehow I ended up onstage, playing guitar in front of everybody else.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
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• If you play the video game, you become more interested and you want to know more about it. You want to read as much about it as you can, see it live and watch as many games as you can. If you're the type who wants to be as involved as you can in the sport, you're probably going to want to play 'Madden NFL.'

  

  John Madden
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• Fairy tales-simple stories for simple minds, a breath of air to cool brows overheated by the complexities of real life.

  

  Matthew Stover
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• Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only - finding out that there is set down in some old book somebody just like me, and to know that I shall only act her part; making me sad, that's all. The best is not to remember your nature and your past doings have been just like thousands' and thousands', and that your coming life and doings'll be like thousands' and thousands'.

  

  Thomas Hardy
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• Before the operation on my left hand I wasn't able to stretch my fingers open all the way. I've never had very big hands, but I could do the splits with them. Eventually I couldn't any more. I had a twisted tendon in my little finger that prevented me from being able to stretch.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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• For me, tribalism and religion are basically the big reasons we're in trouble. Patriotism, tribalism, and religion.

  

  George A. Romero