Ernst Lubitsch Quotes
I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
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Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
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I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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Twitter's more fast-paced. Instagram, it's more, like, lifestyle and posting very specific, cool pictures.
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Pictures can be devastating. Who allowed John Kerry to get himself photographed windsurfing in a flowered swimsuit? Anyone in the real world in that operation?
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I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.
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All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.
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Stop taking pictures and start experiencing life.
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I don't have anything Olympic in our house - no pictures, none of that stuff. Consciously I do that. With 10 children, I don't want to hold that over their heads.
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When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.
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I don't like parties. If I did, there would be pictures of me more often in Gala magazine.
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Has set the standard for excellence in economic policy-making.
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I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.
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In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.
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With this case, we hope to set a new standard for Internet marketers and consumer research companies. Personal information secured through a promise of confidentiality must always remain confidential.
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Nobody rises above mediocrity unless they use the brains of other people.
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I wonder why people use only walls for hanging pictures.
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Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.
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I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather go for lunch with my friends than go to a gym.
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It was an incredible effort by the Irish down in Tallahassee. Jameis Winston was too tough in the second half; congrats to the Seminoles.
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I'll work my butt off to do something well.
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I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.
