Serge Lang Quotes
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
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There's always merit to having a debate.
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They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.
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Yeah, I'm old as the hills and you would think I'd be out to pasture someplace because I've done everything, but nothing has changed.
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Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.
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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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There should be no censorship of mail.
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
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The land and the ocean are living, breathing entities that supported us, clothed us, fed us, and nurtured our culture from time immemorial.
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
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I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.
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I plough all my money into my next film, so I never actually have any money. It's always invisible.
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I make work a bit like how you mix cocktails - with ingredients like budget, history and location.
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Military history shows air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy.
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It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
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Sex appeal is a good thing for commercial cinema. Though I can't sit at home and consider myself a sex symbol, it is for people to do so. I want to be known as an interesting actor.
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And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?'
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I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
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I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people.
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The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also, as a rule, unexpected, and contrasted with previous happiness or glory. A tale, for example, of a man slowly worn to death by disease, poverty, little cares, sordid vices, petty persecutions, however piteous or dreadful it might be, would not be tragic in the Shakespearean sense.
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If you're going to get old, you might as well get as old as you can get.
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There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.
