Oliver Ellsworth Quotes
A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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Being evil is easy.
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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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I spent ten years riding motorcycles.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
Nastassja Kinski -
It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them.
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I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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I want to be involved in soccer some way.
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Anger is a good motivator.
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I've got many different voices - I have a Southern girl, an Irish girl. I have a gibberish language that you'd have to decipher. I guess I try to never take myself too seriously.
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The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up. I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. And the way I write isn't about making things easy. It's a weird juxtaposition.
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I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles...
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A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
