George Cukor Quotes
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We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
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The possibility that terrorist groups could obtain weapons of mass destruction should not be dismissed as a fiction. This is a horrific threat the international community should take seriously. As long as these weapons exist, so, too, does the risk of their use - by accident or design.
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I'm very happy alone.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to decide what has to go.
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I do believe, as a person of color, the disparities are great. A lot of the roles that were sent to me were 'Gangbanger No. 1.' And when a role did come up that I felt carried and represented my community in the best ways, I wasn't the only one that knew it existed. So I'd have to compete.
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There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.
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Ooh, I'd love to be in a movie with Meryl Streep or Martin Scorsese. There are so many different things I want to do, maybe like a possessed child or an evil something... I don't know!
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I'm constantly hydrating my hair.
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Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
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The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process.
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For a woman, the typical danger emanating from the unconscious comes from above, from the 'spiritual' sphere personified by the animus, whereas for a man it comes from the chthonic realm of the 'world and woman,' i.e., the anima projected on to the world.
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We have entered 'The Era of the Three-Option Woman and the No-Option Man.'
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Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.
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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
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You gotta have a swine to show you where the truffles are.
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Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.
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As we all know, sequels can be tricky.
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My last supper would be a charcuterie smorgasbord with every kind of meat, and sauces to dip them in.
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I haven't changed any of my investments since I've been in the Senate and haven't purchased any stocks since I've been in the Senate.
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When you are in vibrational harmony, your body produces whatever it needs to remain in perfect balance.
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Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.
