Milton Berle Quotes
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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.'
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Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
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People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how great this city was from 1900 to the '60s.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
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When you make your first film at 47 and anybody but your mother goes to see it, to me, that's a miracle.
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I've been sent lots of lovely gifts - everything from candy and peanut butter to hand-made quilts, pictures, and clothing. I was once sent a crate of avocados. Fortunately, I love them.
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I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.
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I love anything that involves the ocean. Swimming, snorkelling or surfing are all fun, which distracts from your mind that you are actually doing a workout. Being outdoors in the sun and the salt water is great for freeing your mind and feeling alive.
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I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
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I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.
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Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.
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Pour tromper un rival l'artifice est permis; on peut tout employer contres ses ennemis.
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There's something magical still about it when I get in a darkroom, and you've shot a roll of film and you develop it and you look at your negatives, and there's, like, imagery there. That always stuns me.
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I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.
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Nearly all of us work, a lot: many people spend more waking hours working than doing all other things combined. And nearly all of us spend our lifetimes working for someone other than ourselves.
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There's always kids who become stop motion animators. I get stuff all the time. They put it on YouTube. It's exciting to see.
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You're aging when your actions creak louder than your words.
