Stanley Kubrick Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Character is what was yesterday and will be tomorrow.
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If we pulled out of Iraq tomorrow, Islamic jihadism is on the rise. And they continue, as we see in Lebanon, to seek to destroy the State of Israel and seek to drive America back and bring us to our knees. We must stand tall and straight.
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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.
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I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
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Today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
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I might not know who I was yesterday or who I'm going to be tomorrow, but I know who I am right now.
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We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.
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It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.
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I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.
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To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
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What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
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I never set out to do this; I never set out to say, 'Can I break this record?' Then all of a sudden, the preparations made for the celebration put pressure on me. I said, 'Okay, I have to get there.' After 2,130, there was sort of a realization it was a foregone conclusion you're going to play tomorrow.
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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.
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American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of those killed were civilians, in the Second World War 48 percent, while in a Third World War 90-95 percent would be civilians.
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Acceptance of homage, she had found, gave no permanent satisfaction; it was better to give it; what is given to you you are always afraid will one day cease to be given but what you give you can give for ever. Life had taught her that at long last.
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I think if the monarchy were removed tomorrow, it wouldn't have a huge effect on the national mind-set.
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I am thought of as another Himmler. I'm not. The papers make me out as a criminal. I never killed anyone.
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Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.
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I'm not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
