Sergio Leone Quotes

Probably the greatest writer of westerns himself was Homer. His character were never all good or all bad. They're half and half, these characters, as all human beings are.

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• My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
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• By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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• I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.

  

  Jack Kemp
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• Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
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• Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Difference
  • Location
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• I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Taken
  • Never
  • Body

• It is said that Obama speaks 'professorially,' a fact that understates the quickness and agility of his mind.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Mind
  • Said
  • Fact

• Does anyone actually think I'm going to call Tiger Woods and tell him what to do with his swing one day, and he's going to go out and do it, simple as that? It doesn't work like that.

  

  Hank Haney
  • Work
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• What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • People
  • American
  • Thanks

• I am a very strict mother, and as a mother, it's my responsibility to guide my kids and tell them to go how far and no further. There should be rules and guidelines for the kids, and they should know their limits.

  

  Kajol
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• Sometimes in the middle of the night, I wake up with a song in my head, and I have to finish it so I can fall back asleep.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
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• Lying and corruption are in the Iranian society in all sense of the world, and if you do research about married women, you see that a lot of them tell you they get a lot of enjoyment from breaking the rules of corruption, because just for the fact that they break the rules, it makes them oppose the system.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • World
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• Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
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• When I was 11 I became a massive fan of The Monkees. We had a so-called 'band' of kids on my street and we'd go along to people's houses and mime to Monkees records.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Kids
  • Band

• I don't think anybody is a poet 24/7, only in those rare moments when a person is producing a poem.

  

  X. J. Kennedy
  • Think
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  • Person

• We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

  

  Che Guevara
  • Live
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• High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.

  

  Joseph Barbera
  • High

• A border collie saved me once when I was pinned under a horse in Colorado. And once when I went through the ice, one of my sled dogs saw me go under, and she got the rest of the team, and they pulled me out of 12 feet of water. I think that dogs offer the only form of unconditional love that's available to humans.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Think
  • Humans
  • Available

• I'm lucky to be getting a lot of good work in Tollywood. And I won't say I'm choosy, but of course, you have to select the best, and I'm trying to grab as many good films as I can. There was a time when I had to let go of some films which I regret now.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• Probably the greatest writer of westerns himself was Homer. His character were never all good or all bad. They're half and half, these characters, as all human beings are.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Character
  • Humans
  • Half