Steven Spielberg Quotes
If the movie does well, or it doesn't do so well, some movies get great reviews, some movies don't... that's just part of what I do for a living. I just move through all that; that doesn't ever stop me.
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Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'
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Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
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People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
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Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here.
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
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The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need.
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It's not actually OK to just be apathetic about anything.
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If the 'Athens Spring' - when the Greek people courageously rejected the catastrophic austerity conditions of the previous bailouts - has one lesson to teach, it is that Greece will recover only when the European Union makes the transition from 'We the states' to 'We the European people.'
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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
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Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
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I didn't know how to write a novel, so I sort of let it happen in waves. The only way I could write it was to think like scenes in a movie.
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If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!
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I do think there's no substitute for really hard work. But I think the thing that launched my career at AT&T, I had a pretty tragic thing happen in my family. My sister died, and I was leading a big team at the time, and I had to take time off.
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If the movie does well, or it doesn't do so well, some movies get great reviews, some movies don't... that's just part of what I do for a living. I just move through all that; that doesn't ever stop me.
