Murray Gell-Mann Quotes
Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.
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I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
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We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.
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There's something about the expanse of nature that forces you to think clearly.
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Everybody comes to film differently; everybody has different backgrounds. Just find whatever your lane is naturally. Don't try to force yourself into someone else's vision or try to tell a story that you're not passionate about.
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An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.
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Our central theme is, How good you can get? How hard can I go to see how good you can get?
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I always feel like I want to do my career my own way.
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Un homme se définit aussi bien par ses comédies que par ses élans sincères.1
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Apolo is going to have to keep skating so he can add more gold to his entourage.
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Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.
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At Mardi Gras, the different tribes will basically play war games, and so my brother is what you call a Flag Boy, which is more of less like a tribe's diplomat. He carries the game's standard and is really the line of where the game starts.
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I could never dream of being cool.
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I sort of always like to write starting with when I learned how.
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I try to focus on what I can control, and that's just playing hard and playing well.
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Being interested in other fields and meeting experts outside entertainment - whether it's a two-hour conversation with John Nash that turns into 'A Beautiful Mind' or talking to people in architecture or fashion, CIA directors or Nobel laureates - has given me a better sense of which ideas feel authentic and new.
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When I jerked it out the head remained in my leg, where it remains still. There were a couple of inches of blood on the shaft of the arrow when I pulled it out.
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I refuse to be. In the madhouse of the inhuman I refuse to live. With the wolves of the market place I refuse to howl.
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Science is not always what scientists do.
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The old question of whether there is design is idle. The real question is what is the world, whether or not it have a designer--and that can be revealed only by the study of all nature's particulars.
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Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.
