Steven Spielberg Quotes
Lincoln movie had nothing to do with politics. It had nothing to do with holding a mirror up to the way we conduct our business on Capitol Hill. This was meant to be a story, a Lincoln portrait if you will. I think any time is the right time for a very compelling story, any time.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
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I am a big fan of movies that don't take themselves too seriously. You know you won't change the world, but have fun. Movies like 'Butch Cassidy' I enjoyed tremendously, but it didn't alter my opinion of the world.
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Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.
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In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and others.
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I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir.
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I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.
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Personally, I would like to see the feminist movement described as a hate movement, so that we can then ban them from the government.
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Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.
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I had one typewriter for 50 years, but I have bought seven computers in six years. I suppose that's why Bill Gates is rich, and Underwood is out of business.
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Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school.
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Lincoln movie had nothing to do with politics. It had nothing to do with holding a mirror up to the way we conduct our business on Capitol Hill. This was meant to be a story, a Lincoln portrait if you will. I think any time is the right time for a very compelling story, any time.
