Steven Spielberg Quotes

There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.

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• I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.

  

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• I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

  

  Narendra Modi
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• I listen to music constantly while writing.

  

  Orson Scott Card
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• I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

  

  Sam Donaldson
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• Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
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• Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.

  

  Victoria Principal
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• I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
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• I could've always worked shows, clubs, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, but I was successful in business ventures, and things weren't happening in show business, so I said, 'Let me see what I can do.'

  

  Gabe Kaplan
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• Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Thinking
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• We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.

  

  Carl Honore
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• If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
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• I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.

  

  Yani Tseng
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• Irreverence not only shows disrespect to Deity but also makes it hard for the Spirit to teach us the things we need to know.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
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• I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
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• I know all the books of the Bible.

  

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• I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people - the community was really welcoming, and I now probably have a more interesting social life than I did in the city.

  

  Dani Shapiro
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• But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't.

  

  Dabney Coleman
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• The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Country
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• Those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Nature
  • Empty
  • Produced

• I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Always
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• Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Strange
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• Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged

  

  Rumi
  • Way
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  • Being

• It is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole.

  

  Elizabeth Wordsworth
  • Character
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• There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Strange
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Pigeonhole