Paul Greengrass Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.
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A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
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At my core, I know that the American Dream is about the opportunity to work hard to make your future.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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You don't make it anywhere without someone helping you out.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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Denying our courts the ability to hear oil-related cases of great consequence to our environment and our economy is completely the wrong direction to protect the rights of Floridians.
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Before blogs, it was all about physical presence. We used to send out videos and audiotapes to communicate. Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.
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The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
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The big thing is that you know what you want.
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I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.
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Art saved me. It may sound corny, but it's true.
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Every record we do, we do one song we didn't write.
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It has often struck me with awe that some of the most deeply religious people I know have been, on the surface, atheists.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
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Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.
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Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.
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A simple fishing boat in the midst of the rippling waters is enough to awaken in the mind of the beholder a sense of vastness of the sea and at the same time of peace and contentment - the Zen sense oof the alone.
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It's easy to not feel misplaced if this tidal wave of appreciation is coming your way.
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Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.
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This new global economy, it's all based on the sea routes.
