Jonathan Demme Quotes
I like seeing the cameras because it helps visualize how the music people and the movie people teamed up.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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I'm obsessed with Marcus Mumford. I've got to know him recently; he's amazing.
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Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; Madison wrote not only the United States Constitution, or at least most of it, but also the most searching commentary on it that has ever appeared. Each of them served as president of the United States for eight years. What they had to say to each other has to command attention.
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I'm pretty casual, but I'm starting to obsess a little bit; like, one of my favorite things to do is to pair really feminine accessories with edgier outfits or vice versa.
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Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.
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I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David, and for drink I desire His Blood, which is love incorruptible.
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You're not born with certain skills; you have to acquire them.
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While China succeeded in transferring nearly 150 million people from agriculture to manufacturing, we could not do so, due to lack of skilled manpower.
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Fame is a thing that happens when you do something you love - nobody wants to be famous for the wrong reasons. It's not my goal, but if being more famous means I can get more music out, that's cool.
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To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship that is important to all of us in North America.
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With TV, you're in people's houses every night. And you have so much time to tell stories. I don't know why I didn't do it before.
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I like seeing the cameras because it helps visualize how the music people and the movie people teamed up.
