Francis Ford Coppola Quotes
I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It’s astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.Francis Ford Coppola
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England is a nation of shopkeepers.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the mountains, and there's a vertical sense and a desert light that you can see forever.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
Yoko Ono -
If I do a certain number of ads, I have to do a personal project in between, just for my own sanity. I still consider myself a punk-rock kid.
Aaron Ruell -
We take ourselves so seriously moment by moment, but India shows you a sense of eternity. You're one little ant on a hill. You're part of life, but you're not the whole thing.
Felicity Kendal -
As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.
Laura Dekker
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Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
Naomi Wolf -
For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture of poverty' became associated uniquely with the social maladies of African Americans in urban ghettos, despite the fact that poor whites outnumbered poor blacks.
J. D. Vance -
With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.
Ma Ying-jeou -
I know my music is going well when I don't have insomnia.
Carly Rae Jepsen -
True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God. Many people use religion as a way of getting something else from God they want-blessings, rewards, even escape from judgement. This is wearisome to us, and to God. But when God is His own reward, Christianity becomes thrilling. Sacrifice becomes joy.
J. D. Greear -
As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?
Abraham Lincoln
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Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.
William Cowper -
And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police, until it encroaches on the most unquestionably legitimate liberty of the individual, is one of the most universal of all human propensities.
John Stuart Mill -
The sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting.
Lao Tzu -
There is only one way to bring peace to the heart, joy to the mind, and beauty to the life; it is to accept and do the will of God.
William Barclay -
What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?
William Butler Yeats -
My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.
William Blake
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For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
Ferdinand Mount -
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
Orson Welles -
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
F. H. Bradley -
Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It’s astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.
Francis Ford Coppola