George Clooney Quotes
I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
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If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.
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The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
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The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
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'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.
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I have 250 contacts, employees, and investors who, anytime they come across something relevant, will share it with me. I wake up to 10-15 links that people have explicitly recommended for me. I don't have to look for news anymore; it flows to me.
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Economists are evaluated on how intelligent they sound, not on a scientific measure of their knowledge of reality. (page 85)
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There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we would have these great parties at the house with congas and bongos and African drums, and it was amazing. It wasn't until years later that I found out that they were actually Black Panther meetings.
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Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.
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The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material more or less varied, which almost all contain innumerable products of the sea.
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I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.
