Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott (A. O. Scott) Quotes
Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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I need to end up with someone who is strong, intelligent, independent, someone I really admire - sensitive, sensuous, warm, a sense of humor.
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Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship!
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To get a good deal, I buy them all with a friend. The houses, the boat, everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more.
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I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
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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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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go - not too often, but every now and then - to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records.
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When I did my first film, I did not understand or speak Telugu.
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I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important.
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My main thing is music; it's what I do.
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I was able to lean on people for favors and things to help out because their budget was so low. It was half of what John Travolta's perk package is on a film. Our whole budget was half of what his staff makes on a film.
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Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history.
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Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.
