Todd Solondz Quotes
When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one.
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Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
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We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.
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I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.
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Stay focused on the mission.
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Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.
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When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.
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I talk to younger actor types, and they bring up that word, 'brand,' and it's like, 'All right, if that's the way you want to look at yourself.' Diet Pepsi's a brand; you're a human being.
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Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
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The city - as the theater of experience, the refuge, the hiding place - has, in turn, been replaced by an abstraction, the fast lane. In the fast lane, the passive observer reduces everything - streets, people, rock lyrics, headlines - to landscape. Every night holds magical promises of renewal. But burnout is inevitable, like some law of physics.
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Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.
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The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
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Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.
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A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, 'I' do not hit, 'it' hits all by itself.
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When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one.
