Steven Spielberg Quotes
I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.
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In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.
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When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?
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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
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Some people get very confused about my game. They think it's better if the court is slow, because I have a good defence. But the faster it is, the better for me. My spin is more painful for my opponents, my aggressive game works better.
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That's a real problem when people bring exotics into their homes. Sometimes it's by accident, but sometimes it's on purpose.
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And I feel that filmmakers ought to be careful with the use of 3D. Because if you look back over the decades, you see that 3D has come and gone for I don't know how many years now.
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Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.
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One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive.
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I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.
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The Israeli media are very important to me. I've been part of them and they a part of me all my adult life.
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A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
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Pointing forward in time, we see in Plato the first detailed formulation in Western thought of themes that would persist and be developed further in the classical philosophical tradition, from Aristotle to Augustine to the Scholastics: that the material world points beyond itself to an eternal source; that things have immutable forms or essences; that the foundation of morality is to be found in this source and in these essences; that human beings have immaterial souls; that all of this is knowable through reason, and that knowing it is the highest end of philosophy and science.
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Most people, at a crisis, feel more loyalty to their nation than to their class.
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You need people to encourage you along the way, both during your success and failures, because there will be both.
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I think people always respond to real moments.
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I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
