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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One action society needs to take is to use energy much more efficiently. Instead of incandescent light bulbs, you could switch to LEDs that consume a lot less electricity, for example.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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I did not stay at the 'Today' show because of money. I think there are other ways to make money.
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Now everybody let me hear you say 'Ray Ray Ray'. Now spend all your money cause they pay pay pay.
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In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.
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There's nothing as real as money.
