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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Had we listened a little bit more and paid attention to the hardware that was talking to us, we probably could have prevented the accident. We need to learn from the mistakes we made ... I am continually reminding myself that we're in a dangerous business.
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What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?
