Sidney Altman Quotes
We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy.
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
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I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.
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The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.
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I wish all men were like dogs.
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Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.
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The word 'campaign' is a war term. So when you go into a campaign you just prepare to go to war. If you think this is an exercise in civic activity...then you are going to be surprised.-1985
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Those Fear and Loathing drawings were only possible for me because of the America's Cup six months earlier, which injected the the drawings with the eerie sense of being there to record the sensations. It was a regurgitation, a psycho-artistic vomit - a creative, cathartic cleansing of my inner being.
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'Was your mother furious?''She’ll get over it,' Stanton said. 'Perhaps not in this lifetime, but I happen to believe in reincarnation, so there’s still hope.'
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The biblical times have come back again, the great invasions of the Medes and the Persians. Has the world, then, reached the point where it deserves to be punished for the egotistical epicureanism in which it has slumbered?
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I really have no anxiety about controlling my own life.
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Yes yes (quoth she) for all those wyse woordis vttred, I know on which syde my bread is buttred. But there will no butter cleaue on my breade. And on my bread any butter to be spreade. Euery promise that thou therin dost vtter, Is as sure as it were sealed with butter.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down.
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I've always had visions of being a starting quarterback. That's why I come to work every day.
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We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy.
