Jonathan Demme Quotes
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We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.
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The brain abhors discrepancies.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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Well, it's still another two-day competition, so it's really important to show that you're ready. Every meet is really important right now. You've got to keep showing you can hit.
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I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.
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I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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I worked in SRK and Salman Khan's films as a child artiste, so Bollywood has always been on my radar.
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My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.
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I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
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I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
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My problem is I don't have this incredible, hip image. I'm not some flamboyant or gorgeous-looking guy who's going to sell records based on his image.
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Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.
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I feel bad for my little cousins who don't see themselves being represented, or the little girls in my community who won't have a chance to see a Disney princess... who resembles them.
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The range of ingredients available to home cooks has expanded dramatically. People are incorporating herbs and spices like lemongrass, smoked Mexican chile, sumac, and za'atar mix.
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The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
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This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.
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I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.
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I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
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I was a Talking Heads fan from the very beginning.
