Neal Gabler Quotes
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
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I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
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The professor must be an obscurantist or he is nothing; he has a special and unmatchable talent for dullness, his central aim is not to expose the truth clearly, but to exhibit his profundity, his esotericity - in brief to stagger sophomores and other professors.
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Part of what makes for good writing is an ear for what we would call the poetical. Poetry itself is another thing and it seems to me to be the most difficult writing - that those people are the best writers and they lead the way for everyone else and their writing is frighteningly great.
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To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.
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There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.
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The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them.
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It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
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One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.
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Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.
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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
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The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the quality of your relationships.
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I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.
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After finding the migration trail of the Porcupine caribou, I began to cry uncontrollably, realizing that in this vast and untamed wilderness, I was like them: While being tortured by hellacious mosquitoes, soaked by torrential rains, and stalked by grizzlies and wolves, we were all trying to stay moving, and we slept and ate only to continue our forward progress.
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If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
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It is only after a fair portion of one's life that one really knows what are the things that matter, the things that will remain until the end.
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We need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by ending the subsidies for oil companies, and doubling down on clean energy that generates jobs and strengthens our security.
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In the process of writing '13,' friends were asking if I was OK because I was saying things about religion or about intervening in other countries militarily that I wouldn't normally spout over dinner. In the moment of writing the play, I genuinely changed what I thought.
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More often than not "fair" and "balanced" may be mutually exclusive.
