Steven Spielberg Quotes
I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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I don't want to come off as one of those artists that's not down to earth and real.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
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I'd rate myself an 8. I do have my flaws, but I'm a cool dude. If I wasn't myself, I'd kick it with me. I'm a down-to-earth person and all around cool guy.
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I went to Phoenix, Arizona for 'Angel Unchained,' and they'd hire the bike gang from Phoenix to be extras in the movie.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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There's that old theory that humankind and this planet were seen as the centre of the universe. That was thrown away - how could we be so presumptuous? Well, I subscribe to that.
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
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In Romania, we have pledged to create a modern public service: well-educated, appropriately rewarded and above all, de-politicized.
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I think it's a bit shocking for people when pop stars say anything out of the safe zone.
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What ultimately makes 'The Wire' uplifting amid the heartbreak it conveys is its embodiment of a spirit that Barack Obama calls 'the audacity of hope.' It is filled with characters who should quit but don't, not only the boys themselves but teachers, cops, ex-cops, and ex-cons who lose their hearts to them.
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I remember my own life as a small boy, son of Jewish immigrants, in a janitor's flat on Orchard and Stanton streets on the Lower East Side of New York City. My father made pants and doubled as janitor of a tenement - before he made janitoring at $30 a month, plus rooms, a career.
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I'm not interested in playing the field and all that stuff because frankly I'm not into frivolous relationships.
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We live in a dangerous world where rogue nations are developing longer range missiles. We have to make a strong effort at developing defenses against this threat.
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I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.
