Steven Spielberg Quotes
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I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school. Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.
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While China succeeded in transferring nearly 150 million people from agriculture to manufacturing, we could not do so, due to lack of skilled manpower.
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.
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We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.
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Soviet expansionism in Europe, the battle for control of China, and the 1950 invasion of South Korea would shatter once-euphoric dreams of post-war cooperation with the Kremlin.
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I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.
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The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.
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Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn't know where I was going to find it. I didn't know where I was going to fit in, that was for sure. But I kept moving forward. There wasn't a future in anything other than movement.
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We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
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I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.
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My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.
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It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
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It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.
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Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
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And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters
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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.
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When I grow up, I still want to be a director.
