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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I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don't do because I feel that it's going to create a bad vibe. I don't do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu.
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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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I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
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I no longer look at my life and times in the motion picture industry as my career. I just look at it now as something I like and want to do.
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
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When Pinterest works well, it helps you find things that are meaningful to you. We want to build a system that helps you do that.
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So if I can give anyone advice in this business on love and balancing, it's that you truly have to take a second, step back, to figure out who you are and what you want. And it is okay if those people around you don't fit into that. Because what you don't want to do is end up living your life for someone else.
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There are many untalented people making millions of dollars in the film business.
