Stanley Kubrick Quotes
No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.
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A lot of people don't remember anything since 'Ice Ice Baby,' but I've got 3 records out since then and they're all successes - but not commercially.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
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For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.
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When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,' there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim - a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.
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Siva is one of the best writers in the industry, and 'Srimanthudu' is a great script.
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If you want to see the real Pablo Escobar, go see a documentary.
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I don't like to be me. I'm not so comfortable being me on screen because then I'd be a presenter. I'm not Jimmy Fallon.
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I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.
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I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.
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If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you've never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different - I think that's masterful.
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If we're going to run for points we need to run in the top-five every week.
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For me, it works to my advantage when people think I'm stupid. If somebody who disdains you or wants to control you underestimates you, you can play their game right back.
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I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing.
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President Trump should tell the Senate, 'No more admissions to NATO, no more U.S. war guarantees, unless I have recommended or approved them.' Foreign policy is made in the White House, not on the Senate floor.
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There are three successive states of morality answering to the three principal stages of human life; the personal, the domestic, and the social stage.
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The only difference between a winner and a loser is character.
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But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.
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Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.
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The things that people won't totally accept come in all shapes and sizes and forms, and I can relate to that in my own youth.
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No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.
