Edmund Burke Quotes
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.
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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
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I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
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Absolutely father knows best, always do what your fathers say, and if you can't find one then just ask me, I am a father and I know best.
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'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.
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Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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The most interesting thing in the world, from the standpoint of animal economy-which of course includes human economy-is the wonderful laboratory or factory of the plant...
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I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that.
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You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power.
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We all owe America. It's not the other way around.
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Cheap labor is a small part of the problem at work here. If it were only cheap labor, America would be in trouble. Because it's other things, too, we have a great chance to turn it around. Here's the problem: Our high corporate tax rate pushes our companies offshore. Our high regulatory burden pushes our companies offshore.
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Nothing less will content me, than whole America.
