Lance Ito Quotes
If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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Success must never be measured by how much money you have.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.
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The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.
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Even if you throw your hair up in a quick topknot or ponytail, you can add instant polish by wearing a headband or bejeweled barrette.
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You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
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You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
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You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.
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I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.
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I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful.
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Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn't raised within the Christian church; I wasn't raised within any church.
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We want to encourage people to talk to one another.
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My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in – like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.
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When I pray, I never pray for myself, always for others, or else I hold a silly, naive, or deadly serious dialogue with what is deepest inside me, which for the sake of convenience I call God. Praying to God for something for yourself strikes me as being too childish for words. To pray for another's well-being is something I find childish as well; one should only pray that another should have enough strength to shoulder his burden. If you do that, you lend him some of your own strength.
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If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
