Sidney Buchman (Sidney Robert Buchman) Quotes
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
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A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.
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If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.
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I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.
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We need not hide anything from Truth, for it never condemns us, but only wishes to help.
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I've worked hard all my life.
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It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.
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We knew when we started the Daily Muse, we wanted a recruiting-focused business model rather than an advertising-focused one. We felt like publishers were being forced to go to more and more extreme lengths to monetize through advertising.
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Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.
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It is repugnant to an American to inform upon his fellow citizens.
