William Friedkin Quotes
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
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War is over if you want it.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.
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If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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It happens so quickly it seems like it's coming from somewhere else. It's not. It just means that you're in sync with yourself.
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When I met Dante I didn't work in the movies, but I enjoyed so much the movies. I worked in interior design and when I met Dante, we tried to do something together.
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After The Bomb we developed a fairly good system for moving food around and have avoided the kind of massive famines that attract the media. Although of course we've had a fair number of them, particularly in Africa, since The Bomb was written. But we have had a steady level of attrition of malnutrition and malnutrition-related disease. Probably something on the order of 5 to 10 million people starve to death each year, but they're spread out; they're not dramatic news events.
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There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.
