Ernst Lubitsch Quotes
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He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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My 93-year-old grandma is a beautiful example of healthy living. She laughs a lot and always says, 'Just be yourself!' She also eats dessert every single day.
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India should be an exporter of technology.
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You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities.
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Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.
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'Giving 2.0' was born of my desire to redefine and democratize philanthropy.
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When you're young, you're stupid.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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I think there needs to be a way to allow people to become educated if they've paid taxes, they've been here a long time. And I think, actually, we need to think about young people are not making the decision on whether to come here.
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I've seen 'Absentia,' which was amazing. I loved 'Absentia.' I loved that for no money, he was able to make a movie about something that you never saw. You never saw the bad guys. That was amazing to me. You never saw what you were supposed to be afraid of; you just knew you were supposed to be afraid of it. It was a phenomenal movie.
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Costa Rica is not afraid to go before any international body.
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As coaches, any work you may do, it's been done long ago.
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Look at Sam Beckett. Most depressed man who ever lived, but he sure was funny.
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Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
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It would have been great to have had 10 victories and been in the playoffs and have gone all the way and then said, 'Goodbye,' but it didn't work out that way.
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As physics students, we are taught that physicists are smart, that chemists are moderately acceptable, and that biologists are certainly not very intelligent. So I wasn't inclined to take a biology course. But my father insisted, and maybe what he had in mind was that, if there were no jobs in physics, I would end up being a doctor.
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I like a naturalism to my dialogue and my comedy. I would rather have a few jokes sail by that might be more subtle than have every single joke hit hard. I would rather the comedy come out of character as opposed to feeling forced. Even if you're giving some laughs up for it.
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Since my father is a musician as well, he taught me growing up that if you can play jazz, you can learn all instruments and write on them. He wanted me to be a songwriter that can do anything in any genre. I'm all about doing every genre.
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I try all night to play a pretty note.
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Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside.
