George A. Romero Quotes
My zombie films were all sort of satirical, with political messages. So I was doing them inexpensively and quietly off in left field somewhere.
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The issues that we face as a country and in South Florida aren't broken down by city line or county line.
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My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
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My focus is trying to make great music and putting on great shows, and whatever happens beyond that is a bonus to me.
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Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take pains to claim, 'This is an investment.' Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition.
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Sports fans have an unbelievable ability at the end of the day, when the game comes on, to kind of put everything aside and watch the game.
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Folic acid deficiency does the same thing as radiation.
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'Departure' also the title of a famous triptych painting of Max Beckmann, yes departure from the illusion of life toward the essential things that wait behind appearance.. .We must insist that Departure is not bound to a political trend, but is symbolic for all times.
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My zombie films were all sort of satirical, with political messages. So I was doing them inexpensively and quietly off in left field somewhere.
