Alex Van Halen Quotes
Theres nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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I love shopping, but I can't go out. I love going to restaurants and eating out with friends.
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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
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Well, everybody is trying to make this a money thing. If you send me to another team, let's see what I ask for. I won't ask for nothing. I'll play under the same terms. So it is not Gary wants more money. Gary has money. What else do I need?
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
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I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.
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I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.
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I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.
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Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.
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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world.
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As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run. . . . What an interest it imparts to life!.
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A movie is a mass consumption product. I have got no delusions about being niche. I don't want to be niche. Though in the earlier part of my career I was into niche cinema, doing independent films - and I do have a revolutionary bent of mind - but you cannot make a change from outside; you have to be a part of it.
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I don't want to stop and build protectionism out there, but I certainly don't mind tough negotiation with our trade partners.
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Bookstores contain groceries for the mind!
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Theres nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.
