Steven Soderbergh (Steven Andrew Soderbergh) Quotes
In Full Frontal and K Street, I learned to take advantage of the mobility that digital provides.
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When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
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Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.
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Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
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Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.
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There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
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China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.
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I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.
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I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs. Now, rather than trying to talk or do a costume change, I'll use those moments for myself. I listen to what other people are playing, or just rest, or dance, even though I don't know how to.
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I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.
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Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.
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We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences if we just included them.
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There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not.
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I really like structured coats and layered scarves, and I especially love cashmere sweaters.
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Standing up to Ahmadinejad is not a partisan issue and should never be one.
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New York kept going forward precisely because it didn't give a good goddamn about what it left behind. It was like the city that Lot left, and it would dissolve if it ever began looking backward over its own shoulder. Two pillars of salt. Long Island and New Jersey.
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Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature
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Liberty is the freedom of individual to express, without external hindrances, his personality.
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I’m still having trouble convincing Pax that underwear and pants go together – underwear is not pants!
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If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.
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All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc., that's kind of how humans are.
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Calling China's online censorship system a 'Great Firewall' is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be breached with the right tools.
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Life is a mystery. Life is uncertain. It makes one feel a bit wobbly to realize that.
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In Full Frontal and K Street, I learned to take advantage of the mobility that digital provides.
