Haskell Wexler Quotes
My mother let me know that we're all connected. If some of us become more affluent it's not because we're better or even smarter people - we have a responsibility to ourselves to be a good boy.
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I discovered television is a great way to deal with the chaos of new motherhood. I would put the babies to bed and get lost in a trashy reality show.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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I don't care about revenues.
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I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.
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I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.
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I want to be in love with what I do at all times, and I want to stay in love.
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'We are not a debating club,' Franklin said. 'Our goal is to get at the truth, where that is possible.'
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Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.
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There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country.
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Bruce Lee has always been a hero of mine, and the choreography in 'Enter The Dragon' is amazing.
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My father was a very big musical influence on me. He was a trumpet player. And that's what I started with. Then, when I was 7, my parents introduced me to the piano.
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If you're a conservative, you think I'm Satan.
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My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood.
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Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.
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I can't point to my work and say, 'This is my work.' My work lives in me, so when people criticize my work, they're also criticizing me. It's really hard to sort of divorce that sensitivity.
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Could I see myself with a British boyfriend? Absolutely. The way they wear their pants is so cute. Guys don't do it in America. Their style is cute. I just feel like Brits are honest - period. And that's what I like.
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When I did 'Frantic,' I didn't have a lot of experience. My English was so bad, and I did an OK job, I think, but I was not amazing.
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My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy.
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My mother-in-law was so mean she blinded herself just to get a free dog.
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I think Father Christmas is real because the belief is real. The belief becomes the reality.
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I know the Americans are inherently disposed against us, but when they talk with us, they will see that I am not the kind of person who would shoot nuclear weapons to the south, over the Pacific or at the United States.
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My mother let me know that we're all connected. If some of us become more affluent it's not because we're better or even smarter people - we have a responsibility to ourselves to be a good boy.
