George Clooney Quotes
I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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When you face unexpected events, you have to try to overcome those problems, but at the same time, you have to continue working according to the plan that you defined since the beginning. So that's what we have tried to do - not to avoid the urgent responses but to continue the route that we had defined.
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I am pretty self-indulgent.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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It's not ideal to always be one eye on the Blackberry and two arms around my children. For the sake of mothers out there who don't have the Blackberry but do have the children and are hoping someone will be raising their voice on their behalf, it's a great privilege.
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To be an ideal guest, stay at home.
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The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.
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No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.
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Hope is the raw material of losers.
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No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.
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People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.
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We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.
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I don't care where I have to go for work. I just care that it's a good project. That's what I want.
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Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
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I'm from a small town in North Carolina and went to a small college and didn't think that someone like me could make a living in L.A. doing comedy. I worked hard, especially in college, but at that age, you don't know what's next.
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E-mail, when it became mobile - what happened? Utilization of email went through the roof. Just pure Internet access and data - what happens when you mobilize it? Multiples. People are dependent upon broadband and as you mobilize it, they become even more dependent on broadband.
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In Sufi terms the crushing of the ego is called Nafs Kushi. And how do we crush it? We crush it by sometimes taking ourselves to task. When the self says, 'O no, I must not be treated like this,' then we say, 'What does it matter?' When the self says, 'He ought to have done this, she ought to have said that,' we say, 'What does it matter, either this way or that way? Every person is what he is; you cannot change him, but you can change yourself.' That is the crushing. ... It is only in this way that we can crush our ego.
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The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.
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I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of.
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I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of.
