Francis Ford Coppola Quotes
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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.
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I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.
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The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
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I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.
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I've worked out for years. For a long time, it was my only sense of gratification.
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It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.
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What Guitar Hero has done is to turn music inside out. Whereas the iPod made music very personal, very singular - you put your ear-buds in and you listen to it - Guitar Hero turned it around and made it very social. So it is fun to play. It's fun to play against people.
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Khatami is a symptom and not the cause of change in Iran.
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When Edna O'Brien's first novel, 'The Country Girls,' was published in 1960, her family and neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that horrifying purpose.
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It just flat-out sucks losing. It really - it doesn't feel good.
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If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack.
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We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.
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Boredom is a luxury good.
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I have fond memories of the development work that led to a lot of great things in modern gaming - the intensity of the first person experience, LAN and Internet play, game mods, and so on.
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The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.
