Steven Spielberg Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably – small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.
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Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.
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Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.
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I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
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We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
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I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.
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The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.
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During war, the laws are silent.
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.
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Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people.
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The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.
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The Creation was the first act of sabotage.
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Family is not always the people with whom you share DNA. Sometimes, family is the person who fights the hardest for your happiness.
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I don't mind other guys seeing movies I want to see and then writing about them. That's fine, especially when it's the New Yorker's Anthony Lane, because he knows this stuff pretty well.
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As an athlete, you only have so much time. The window only has so much time and then it closes. You have to take care of yourself the best you can.
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Adverbs lead to overwriting. Try taking them out and reading your prose again to see how it sounds. Simple and less words are more powerful.
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The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle.
