Steven T. Katz (Steven Theodore Katz) Quotes
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Cottonmouth is the result of having to react to his circumstances. He had to, in some ways, take control of the situation and own his circumstances. But as a result of that, he became a person he didn't intend to become.
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If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.
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Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.
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There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.
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I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
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The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
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I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.
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There is definitely that thing here a little where people are like 'Oh that Broadway girl has come to Nashville' and I'm like 'Listen you guys, I was singing country before I even got a Broadway show. And I'm from Kentucky.'
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Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.
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Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.
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'Life Aquatic' was the first movie I did, and it's been an incredible adventure since then.
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No one comes into our house and pushes us around.
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Eventually I just want to live a normal life. I want to get married and have children and cook, wash... all the things that I do now. My background is very normal and steady, and that's what I like.
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The striking surprise is that prophets of Israel were tolerated at all by their people. To the patriots, they seemed pernicious; to the pious multitude, blasphemous; to the men in authority, seditious.
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I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me.
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Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I'm looking for is the producer cap.
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We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty.
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Having 'The Ultimate Fighter' was the thing that did it for us, live fighting on TV. That's what we had to do, was get a live fight on TV. It couldn't have worked out better.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.
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To me, absurdity is the only reality.
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If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.
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The notion that Jews are mythic creatures is well circulating in our culture.
