Rainer Weiss Quotes
My parents were singularly uninterested in me. My father was too self-centered and too busy with his own practice to pay a lot of attention to me, and my mother was probably deflected more by my sister.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.
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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
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I was a kid watching music videos, which were so cool and made me want to learn how to dance. I wish I could've gone to dance classes and learn, like, hip-hop dancing.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.
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I finally bought a gun because I said if I'm going to get it, I'm taking somebody with me.
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Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.
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People sometimes think I'm sort of all-knowing.
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. The more stupid the man, the larger his stock of adamantine assurances, the heavier his load of faith.
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There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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I try to be happy. I try to face things without regret or make sure that I'm happy with things and leave nothing unsaid if I can.
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To me, the best projects are the ones where you have a pretty good idea of what the spine of it's gonna be, but then all sorts of things happen that you could've never predicted, and those are the magic moments of the films.
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Essential to the self-image of conservatives is the notion that they are enemies of an established orthodoxy, insurgents against the dogmatic political correctness that predominates on the Left.
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I still subscribe to the minority view that all horses are offensive weapons and not to be trusted a yard.
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My parents were singularly uninterested in me. My father was too self-centered and too busy with his own practice to pay a lot of attention to me, and my mother was probably deflected more by my sister.
