Steven Spielberg Quotes
You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
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I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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The P2P marketplace extends into other markets where individuals are monetizing underutilized assets. Lodging is one example. Instead of finding a hotel room, in the sharing economy you can rent a spare room from a local resident.
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Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.
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For each project I do, I try to surprise myself, do the unexpected, and change my own status quo. From the One Laptop Per Child, the Herman Miller Sayl, or the latest Movado watch collection, there is always an insecurity about being able to do something important. I think each of those projects makes me feel like we have progressed.
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Hi and Merry Christmas. I’m honored to have a chance to speak with you and your family this year. Recently we learned that our governments, working in concert, have created a system of worldwide system of mass surveillance watching everything we do. Great Britain’s George Orwell warned us of the danger of this kind of information.
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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
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Because I really love tax, tax topics actually feature quite a lot in my fiction of various lengths. I once wrote a science fiction short story centered around the idea of an alien tax code, and the idea that you can understand a society by parsing its tax code.
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Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile.
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Like many other Americans, I'm tired of the U.S. taxpayer paying for foreign wars, especially when the countries we defend have raked in huge oil profits.
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Actually, I loved Chucky. It's one of the strangest movies I've ever seen.
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'Rent-a-tile' means when you go to a dance hall, some people take the middle of the dance floor and do their thing.
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I will give my life to whoever in need, to any dear friend of mine.
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We're making far too big a deal out of our sexual preferences. It's just another form of narcissism, and I think it can be a big problem and a tremendous obstacle.
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I'm still very much a kid inside myself.
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The medium of response in America is fame; that's how a person that bounces a ball can make millions of dollars, and a school teacher with no fame makes $35,000.
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I do very well three things: my job, stupidities and children.
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Family is never really gone.
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You never look silly when you're defending the American people and their pocketbook.
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You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.
