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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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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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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Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society, L. Easton, trans. (1967), p. 36
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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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I feel, like all modern Americans, no consciousness of sin and simply do not believe in it. All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell. That is a final fact of my inner consciousness, and for no religion could I deny its truth.
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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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There's war - there's always been war, as long as most of us have been alive. There have always been people being abused, there's always been horrible things in the world. Why are we outraged? We should just be quiet and figure it out, and work it out together.
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There's an eternal war between a creative person and the business person.
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Whenever I record more than two or three layers, it starts to get cluttered up, and you can't hear the cut of the guitars as good. It's hard to get four guitars to hit at exactly the same time and keep the attack tight.
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I have never lived in a time when people haven't told me what I look like.
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The factors we have listed (innovation, economies of scale, education, capital accumulation, etc.) are not causes of growth; they are growth.
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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.
