Sam Peckinpah Quotes
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.
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The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
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I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.
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It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
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Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before.
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As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.
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There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by the first African-American president that we have. Obama's father was a Muslim and people have used this to arouse hostility against him.
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I am reminded of the words of Chairman Mao: It's always darkest before it goes completely black.
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Most of the great works of juvenile literature are subversive in one way or another: they express ideas and emotions not generally approved of or even recognized at the time; they make fun of honored figures and piously held beliefs; and they view social pretenses with clear-eyed directness, remarking - as in Andersen's famous tale - that the emperor has no clothes.
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GIS is being influenced by and integrating with all kinds of new innovations such as faster computing, big data, the cloud, smart devices, and distributed processing.
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If you're clever enough and creative enough to get a good film made, then you should be clever enough and creative enough to find ways to get it out there, one being something like Jameson First Shot.
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All I want is to enter my house justified.
