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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When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.
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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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If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
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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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There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea
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Under which head do you class those who are at sea?
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Of all wonders, this is among the greatest, that some fresh waters close by the sea spring forth as out of pipes: for the nature of the waters also ceaseth not from miraculous properties.
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I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in the entire economy the oil industry, that they are being watched.
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Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.
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This new global economy, it's all based on the sea routes.
