Peter Ustinov Quotes
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.Peter Ustinov
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
Baltasar Kormakur -
I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.
Xavier Niel -
College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.
Barbara Mikulski -
My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
Hakeem Olajuwon -
The American school system's a little warped, so anyone can get a degree if they have a little money.
Adam DeVine -
I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.
Madeleine Albright
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
Daniel Alarcon -
A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.
Canelo Alvarez -
The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
Fabrizio Moreira -
In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'
Gaston Lachaise -
The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a deliberate relationship to public opinion.
Samantha Power -
Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.
Ian Hacking
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I had three attorneys dedicated solely to find the statistic of the number of missing Native American women on reservations. Any reservation, not just 'Wind River.' They don't exist. The federal government, which is responsible for the reservations, don't keep those stats.
Taylor Sheridan -
The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?
Kate Bush -
One of the things that I like about 'Narcos' is that not only Pablo but with all the characters - this is not a black and white show. This is not a regular American cop show where two cool cops go to save a country from a bad guy. All the characters are very complex.
Wagner Moura -
We have dealt with the Arab/Muslim problem in the American media in every single way but through comedy. Hollywood has always been lagging behind comedy... We can make fun of ourselves, too, and I'm inviting us to laugh with us - and all the misconceptions.
Bassem Youssef -
I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I've read until my eyes were bleeding. I don't know what more could be said. This is not a black-and-white issue.
Charles Edwards -
We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart- preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you.
Ethel Percy Andrus -
On 'Metallica,' I recorded six or seven different guitar solos for almost every song, took the best aspects of each solo, mapped out a master solo and made a composite. Then I learned how to play the composite solo, tightened it up and replayed it for the final version.
Kirk Hammett Metallica -
Hollywood is a wonderful machine for making big movies. In France, we make smaller and more personal films, but if things keep changing, this will disappear. The industry in Italy is practically gone. Cinecitta now is used mostly by filmmakers from others places, like Martin Scorsese.
Ludivine Sagnier -
Words reproduce themselves pleasurably too.
Peter Greenaway -
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
Peter Ustinov