Stanley Kubrick Quotes
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The attacks on Sept. 11 really sent a shock wave through our economy, and the full reverberation of that is not yet known.
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Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
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Some people dream of having a big swimming pool. With me, it’s closets.
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I wish I understood the beauty in leaves falling. To whom are we beautiful as we go?
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I hate period films - and there are plenty of them - where they say, "Let's not do contemporary language because the audience won't understand it;" "let's not make the girls wear corsets, because it's not sexy" and all that sort of thing. Gradually it disintegrates into a no man's land: you don't really believe it's a period scene and it doesn't feel like it's now because it's not now. You don't feel it's quite real and you don't believe in it.
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We believe one magnificent highway of this kind the Lincoln Highway, in actual existence, will stimulate as nothing else could the building of enduring highways everywhere that will not only be a credit to the American people but that will also mean much to American agriculture and American commerce.
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The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete.
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The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.
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I really never look at my health issues as 'Woe is me.' I've seen the reality of that. And it's not a pleasant thing.
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Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool.
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You’ll understand one day how murderous, how suicidal, individual isolation is. You’ll cry then, suffocated by our culture’s cannibal loving.
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In the long run, with profits from piracy greater than international finance mobilised to solve the problem, we can expect piracy to increase geographically and in sophistication.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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At fourteen, you really do start realising that the world is not a safe and protected place or not always.
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Pete Rose has three thousand hits and three thousand fourteen overall.
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I try to be active five to six times a week, and I keep very healthy, but I don't beat myself up on a bad day. If you're working fourteen hours on a set and you need to eat five protein bars, then you just do that. I keep it a regular and normal part of my life as [much as] I can.
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I enjoy playing villains - I'm very proud that I belong to a very honorable tradition of British actors who come to Hollywood to play the bad guys. At some point in American film, I think there was the idea that the British accent had a tone to it that's a little bit naughty.
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What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?
