Stephen Leacock (Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock) Quotes
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.
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In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.
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Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.
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Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.
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One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'
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If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.
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People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.'
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Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.
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I want to be a better person in every aspect. I really don't feel I've in anyway fulfilled my potential in every area of my life. But I'm optimistic.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectifications of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
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During my 'difficult teens,' I read about worlds that were mysterious.
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I'm not the kind of person that sits around kind of envisioning things.
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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.
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Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar.
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Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.
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