Carlton Mellick III Quotes
That is the moral of this story, kids. No matter how many people try to stomp on your happiness, you have the power to do whatever you want with your life.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.
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I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
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The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
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The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
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By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
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When I met Dante I didn't work in the movies, but I enjoyed so much the movies. I worked in interior design and when I met Dante, we tried to do something together.
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Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.
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Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?
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The casino is the only human venture I know where the probabilities are known, Gaussian (i.e., bell-curve), and almost computable.
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We need not hide anything from Truth, for it never condemns us, but only wishes to help.
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What man would not be a dancer if he could, said the judge. It’s a great thing, the dance.
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I don't think there's anything wrong with being paternalistic as a company.
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Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works.
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Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.
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There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too.
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I don't want any man I can run over. What I love about a man in control is it allows them to be the kings that I always expect them to be.
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People don't remember that during the Fifties and Sixties there was a Cold War, and kids were getting under their desks during school because they thought they were going to get bombed. So it wasn't really that ideal at all.
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That is the moral of this story, kids. No matter how many people try to stomp on your happiness, you have the power to do whatever you want with your life.
