George Hickenlooper Quotes
Most people, 95% of people, are good people. It's the 5% who get seduced by power.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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When I looked at the skeleton of 'Damn Yankees,' I saw an indestructible story, absolutely original characters, one of the freshest, sassiest American scores of the century, and some outmoded equipment.
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Everybody must have wished at some time that poetry were written by nice ordinary people instead of poets-and, in a better world, it may be; but in this world writers like Constance Carrier are the well oysters that don’t have the pearls.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.'
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If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with the vision of the anointed often see these constraints as only arbitrary impositions, things from which they-and we all-can be 'liberated.' The social disintegration which has followed in the wake of such liberation has seldom provoked any serious reconsideration of the whole set of assumptions-the vision-which led to such disasters. That vision is too well insulated from feedback.
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Most people, 95% of people, are good people. It's the 5% who get seduced by power.
