C. Douglas Payne Quotes
One of the tragic consequences of divorce is that the kids are legally obligated by the courts to spend a fixed amount of time with their dads. In normal families, dads and children happily ignore each other.C. Douglas Payne
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
Harmony Korine -
When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.
Park Chan-wook -
I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
Olivier Theyskens -
I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
Rand Paul -
The less you have, the more you enjoy.
Carine Roitfeld -
I grew up in California, and when I read that Proposition 8 was on the ballot, I was disappointed because it seemed to be inconsistent with the spirit of the state, with the independence and diversity of the frontier that California has always been.
Ted Olson
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
Naomi Campbell -
You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
Wayne Rogers -
When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
Ian Mckellen -
I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
Yoko Ono
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
Tarja Halonen -
I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
Viggo Mortensen -
I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.
Damon Galgut -
I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.
Karel Reisz -
Ziggy Marley is the third generation of Marleys I know. I knew his grandmother and his dad - I did a children's album with his grandmother. They're like family.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
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Sadly, I haven't had a brain cell since I had children.
Ali Hewson -
Someday, maybe we'll recognize that queer is actually the norm, and the notion of static sexual identities will be seen as austere and reductive.
Jenna Wortham -
You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.
Barack Obama -
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
H. L. Mencken -
One of the tragic consequences of divorce is that the kids are legally obligated by the courts to spend a fixed amount of time with their dads. In normal families, dads and children happily ignore each other.
C. Douglas Payne