Sam Peckinpah Quotes
There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.
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I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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I'm not an actress; I'm not a professional testifier.
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I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.
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Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.
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With acting, I didn't get much from it.
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People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.
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I was really trying to sell to people who hate jazz: to make a case for the art form as youthful and energetic, not the sort of rarified intellectual activity it's painted as.
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Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.
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'What is the secret of your serenity? Said the Master 'Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.'
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There’s obviously always danger in making music or art for art’s sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift.
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Estque dei sedes nisi terra et pontus et aeret caelum et virtus? superos quid quaerimus ultra?Jupiter est quodcumque vides, quocumque moveris.
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If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college.
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If someone wanted to do a biopic about me, I would like for them to consult my family.
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Business books are generally read and written by people who aren't good at business.
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I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
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Every problem that is interesting is also soluble.
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Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.
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Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.
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Now I wonder what our knowledge has in common with God's knowledge according to those who treat God's knowledge... Is there anything else common to both besides the mere name? ...there is an essential distinction between His knowledge and ours, like the distinction between the substance of the heavens and that of the earth.
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I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.
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In a couple of years I think it [sequel to What We Do] will come out as a script and we'll shoot that. Or maybe it will just come out as some t-shirts.
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I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love.
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There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channeled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness.
