Steven Spielberg Quotes
My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.
Quotes to Explore
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.
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If there is inequality, and that equates with colour, then I'm going to deal with it.
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It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
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When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
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Seeing people get messed up never gets un-funny! And there's plenty of ways to do that.
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I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.
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A lot of people glorify and romanticize the idea of being an early bloomer: finding success very early and being a child star. But it can also be quite dangerous.
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Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations - if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that.
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The threat is desertification. My response is a sandstone wall made from solidified sand.
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We feel much sorrow for you, the elm tree had said. But what kind of sorrow-a real and sincere sorrow, or the superficial and pedantic sorrow of the immortal for a frail and flickering creature that was about to die?
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Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
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No one can figure out your worth but you.
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We'll continue to hold America to the standard it says on paper that we're all created equal because it's not that way right now. But we're going to keep pushing towards that.
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I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.
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I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
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We really don't discover fully what 'Westworld' is for this first season, until we get there. The first 10 episodes are the journey. The colors become brighter, the vistas become clearer, and the history is more understood with each step we take along the way.
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History is as much an art as a science.
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My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.
