Steven Spielberg Quotes
I turned down 'Harry Potter' and 'Spider-Man,' two movies that I knew would be phenomenally successful, because I had already made movies like that before and they offered no challenge to me. I don't need my ego to be reminded.
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It's inspiring for me to know that you've got to step up your game.
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I love the noise of my wooden clogs on my wooden floor. Dancers wear clogs. They're good for you.
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We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.
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I'm looking forward to coming back, back to Earth, the landing, the views.
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Belief is nearly the whole of the Universe, whether based on truth or not.
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Speed is what makes the Premiership exciting. The millions who would have watched Manchester United and Chelsea would have seen a non-stop game in which the pace was electric even though the first half was a non-event. You could see a better technical game in Spain but for sheer frenetic movement there is nothing that comes close... Pace is more critical in the Premiership than in any other major league and if you don't have pace, you have to compensate with power or ability in the air and since Shevchenko has no power and is not particularly good in the air, he is in trouble.
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If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer. Every moment is the most important moment of your life. No future time is better than now to let down your guard and love.
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I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.
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Already in the 1550s, 10% of Lisbon’s population were slaves; by 1800 there were close to a million slaves among the 2,500,000 or so inhabitants of Portugal’s Brazil.
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I've actually cut my personal pay individually; we didn't vote on that, but I've done that individually. It's important that folks know that we're going to roll up our sleeves and work on things, and members of Congress are going to sacrifice our own budgets first.
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I am really happy to see the number of entrepreneurs in India - not only because of the ideas they have but also because of the passion at which their ideas are put across.
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Cars have a large engine in the front and you have a gearbox, which is cumbersome. Electric cars don't have this problem. The motor is much smaller, the battery is below you. This will allow you to play with different shapes.
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Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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I love 'Harry Potter' and JK Rowling - don't laugh at me!
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I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.
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He's such a good player, who gets the puck to the net and helps in particular on the power play because he finds the open man. It's hard to find players who see the ice as well as he does and can make that pass.
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I turned down 'Harry Potter' and 'Spider-Man,' two movies that I knew would be phenomenally successful, because I had already made movies like that before and they offered no challenge to me. I don't need my ego to be reminded.
