Homer Quotes
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Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.
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The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.
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I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
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If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
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If people hate me they hate me.
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
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It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
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The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'
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It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.
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I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
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I know I've got to just keep throwing the ball. That's what I do best.
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For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people.
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Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
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Growing up eating fruits and vegetables fresh from our farm added a lot to the way I taste and look at food today, and I wanted the same for my kids and other kids.
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I think you get better as you get older.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.
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Few sons are like their fathers - many are worse, few better.
