George Clooney Quotes
The truth of the matter is the real story are the people who rise above all of this incredible cruelty. Otherwise that cruelty wins.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
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Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or to write a perfect journalistic standard of my life. It was always to be as literature.
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I graduated from Columbia University in 1996 and founded my investment company in 1997, thus starting my professional investment career.
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I am a firm believer in the benefits of open markets and the free movement of capital.
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A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.
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I wonder if people who see 'Blade' will have even seen my other movies. But I don't want all my movies to be in a vacuum. I need a balance because one pays, and the other doesn't.
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The truth of the matter is the real story are the people who rise above all of this incredible cruelty. Otherwise that cruelty wins.
