Steven Soderbergh (Steven Andrew Soderbergh) Quotes
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye.
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It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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Movies don't have borders.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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I am totally a fringe candidate, and so is Bill Weld: you know, two Republican governors serving in heavily blue states, outspoken, small government guys, outspoken on the social liberal side. We're fringe, totally. We're fringe.
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I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
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I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.
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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it.
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I'm not that moody. I don't have big ups and downs.
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John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
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I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.
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I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python.
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I mean, I went to a Catholic boys school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.
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Cannes is a sort of gladiators' arena, and that's the fun part of it. When you accept to come here to open the festival, you know you are going to be criticised. I have no problem with the fact that I expose myself and the movie, and it's normal that I can disagree with the way some people feel.
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My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything... like stray cats and squirrels.
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You can't defend. You can't prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond.
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I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films.
