Joseph Barbera Quotes
I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
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One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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My father is a big fan of Amitabh Bachchan and always wanted to work or star in a remake of any of his film. But he didn't get the opportunity.
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The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
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The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.
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Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
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I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.
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I'd love to do historical pictures more, but I don't know if I can.
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I said that if I hadn't been a politician, I'd have liked to be a barrister, or an academic. My beloved wife said: 'You'd be a very good barrister and a hopeless academic.' I said 'Why?' She said: 'Because you're not an original thinker.'
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There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.
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Our culture teaches us to focus on personal uniqueness, but at a deeper level we barely exist as individual organisms. Our brains are built to help us function as members of a tribe. We are part of that tribe even when we are by ourselves, whether listening to music (that other people created), watching a basketball game on television (our own muscles tensing as the players run and jump), or preparing a spreadsheet for a sales meeting (anticipating the boss’s reactions). Most of our energy is devoted to connecting with others.
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I like murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it's all going to be neatly wound up at the end.
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Evolutionary psychology has often been a field whose most prominent practitioners get embroiled in controversy - witness the 2010 case of Harvard professor Marc Hauser, whose graduate students came forward to say he'd been faking evidence for years.
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I hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive.
