Renny Harlin Quotes
I feel like I learned very early on that your heroes are only as powerful as your villains. And I'm attracted to intelligent villains.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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I am a just man.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
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Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.
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In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn't really have enough men around to fill all the jobs. So there was this sudden demand that women come back and perform a lot of the white-collar and pink-collar roles that men had done before or that hadn't existed before.
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I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting history to young people in particular.
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I think governments can't do much.
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Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.
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Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.
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We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy.
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In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.
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When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.
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Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.
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Never go into venture capital if you want a peaceful life.
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The most important metrics are did we execute the way in which we said we would, and did we deliver the value to the business that we had promised?
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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Our German Fatherland to which I hope will be granted... to become in the future as closely united, as powerful, and as authoritative as once the Roman world-empire was, and that, just as in the old times they said, Civis romanus sum, hereafter, at some time in the future, they will say, I am a German citizen.
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I feel like I learned very early on that your heroes are only as powerful as your villains. And I'm attracted to intelligent villains.
