Roland Joffe Quotes
Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?
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If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.
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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
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The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Jasmine apologized and said she was sorry and said she loved me, she couldn't believe it and said she thought it would be her. All of them were really, really sorry that it happened to me.
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It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.
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Animals are not just herbivores or carnivores. They are, in the nice coinage of the psychologist George Miller, informavores.
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Sometimes when I'm flying over the Alps I think, 'that's like all the cocaine I sniffed.
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Basketball was every day of my life. Wake up with a ball - sometimes I'd sleep with it because someone told me that was better for you.
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It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.
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I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then.
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The first video I ever watched was on a Beta system because everyone thought Beta was the way but then it ended up being video so we backed the wrong horse.
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I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.
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The real boneheads are the libertarians.
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I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.
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Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself as well as from others than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture
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I do love being onstage. And I've always loved playing a character and being watched doing that.
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I don't think about my past or future.
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Know more than other. Work more than other. Expect less than other
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Dedicated to the future, with honor to the past.
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Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?
