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 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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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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I love Eighties rock.
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I like the variety. But basically my choice of films is a small intimate film. Quiet film, no action, just people in relationships. That's what I like the most.
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To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
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“Every war casts up certain small groups among ethnic populations: minorities too cowardly to fight openly, too insignificant to play any independent political part, but despicable enough to act as paid executioners to one of the fighting powers. In this war those people were the Ukrainian and Lithuanian Fascists.”
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
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Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing.
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People who enjoy what they do, invariably do it well.
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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.
