Steven Soderbergh (Steven Andrew Soderbergh) Quotes
I have a friend whose theory is that you're from wherever you went to high school. I think that's mostly true.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.
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Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
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I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.
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Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
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I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of things - they clearly rejected the idea of an established church.
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A lot of times they don't want to hear it. But you know, if some good is done to you, you should pass it on.
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Love stories thrive on hope.
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My parents are music fans, even though neither of them play an instrument. I was exposed to their record collection, so I love everything from Joni Mitchell to Bruce Springsteen.
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In this day the breeze of God is wafted, and His Spirit hath pervaded all things. Such is the outpouring of His grace that the pen is stilled and the tongue is speechless.
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Variety shows didn't disappear; it was the caliber of the artists, the classic vaudevillians that have passed on. They are gone, so there's a different caliber performer that's come along that hasn't had the time to work in the small clubs and get the experience.
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As a comedian, I don't know if they're laughing because it's funny or if they're laughing at me because I'm not funny. And I'm thinking, 'Who cares? They're laughing.' If you go on stage, and they're laughing at you full-on for 60 minutes? You know, whatever puts them in the seats.
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Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.
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Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.
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I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.
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It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
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I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now.
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It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.
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I have a friend whose theory is that you're from wherever you went to high school. I think that's mostly true.
