Ivan Reitman Quotes
I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.
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I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
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If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax. We would abolish the IRS, and we could replace all of it with one federal consumption tax.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.
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I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.
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Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in power, it will have to change more.
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I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
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You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!
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The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.
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We are political animals, as, not without reason, affirmed Aristotle, who perhaps influenced humanity's thinking more than any other ancient philosopher through his almost 200 treatises, according to reports, of which only 31 have been preserved.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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For a while, I thought that I was only going to be cast in Second World War films.
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A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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I think there's many a slaveholder'll get to Heaven. They don't know better. They acts up to the light they have.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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The mind is acquired "human nature". The conscience is inherent "spiritual nature".
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I really don't know the Chicago School. You see, I never walk. I always take taxis back and forth to work. I rarely see the city.
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Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'
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A man's sense of self is defined through his ability to achieve results.
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I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.
