Michael Lehmann Quotes
I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes.
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.
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I love heavy music. I keep Flume nice and melodic, so I save the angry, testosterone-fueled heavy stuff for What So Not. I think it's a good defining thing for the two projects.
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Watch your finances like a hawk.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.
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I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
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The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
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Mark Twain cannot be defined.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
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People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.
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When you're 0-2 in the Super Bowl, they say unkind things about you. They say, 'He can't win the big one.' And that's the worst thing that can be said about you.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.
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If my children were hungry I should think I would steal to feed them.
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I tried to think but nothing happened!
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I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes.
