Evan Goldberg Quotes
Growing up in Vancouver, it's not like growing up in Middle America or the middle of Canada. It's a very movie town.
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Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.
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God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
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Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
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On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me – I will not just going to sit at my desk, at my computer all the time. I – I might want to march out on that.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.
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If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.
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I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.
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When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person.
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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it.
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Both knowledge and wisdom extend man's reach. Knowledge led to computers, wisdom to chopsticks.
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Growing up in Vancouver, it's not like growing up in Middle America or the middle of Canada. It's a very movie town.
