Joseph L. Mankiewicz Quotes
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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As a brand, Ahla is one of Strauss-Elite's strongest. But we need to do a lot of marketing in order to regain market leadership. I have no doubt that we will do that, even if it takes time.
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I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
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God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.
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If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.
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People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.
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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
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It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?
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If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.
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I know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.
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Men learn to call pain 'glory'; women learn to call the police.
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You are my fav'rite star, My haven in heaven above, You are ev'rything I love.
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I've been to location shoots in Mexico before, and everyone ends up getting sick.
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My mother was the strong wife, partner, and co-worker Martin Luther King, Jr. needed to be an effective leader, and he said so on many occasions.
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In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day.
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I do not mourn the death of the printed letter in a snobby, East Coast, patrician way - 'Where have our manners gone?' - but because I love objects, I love paper, and I love something that I can hold to my chest for a moment. Still, I bear no grudge against the e-mail form itself.
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I think once I fail enough as a dad, I'll be looking for help wherever I can get it. I just need enough time to screw things up and then I'll start looking to TV dads for advice.
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I have an organic garden and love being able to say, 'I'm going to see what I can pick to throw in my salad.'
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You can believe in Fung Shui if you want, but ultimately people control their own fate. The most important thing is to improve yourself and give it your best. Then many things previously thought to be impossible will become possible.
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If you want to get a good seat at a Texas A&M game or a University of Texas game, it depends on how much money you give the school.
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There's nothing as real as money.
