Steven Spielberg Quotes
It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.
Quotes to Explore
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The signs of climate change are visible across the nation, from the drought-stricken fields of Central California to the flooded streets of Michigan. Extreme weather is turning people's lives upside down and costing communities millions of dollars in damaged infrastructure and added health care costs.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care.
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I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
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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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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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And that's the way it is.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.
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Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
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There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.
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I love football, football is my life.
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Why are the architects of the family-values agenda so eager to punish into the next generation? What is being served by seeking, quite literally, a tooth for a tooth?
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Really skinny actresses make me hungry - I see them and think, Honey, you need to eat!
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It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.
