Ridley Scott Quotes
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I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army – thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old.
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.
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Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.
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The other advantage is that in conventional manufacturing processes, it takes a long time for a factory to produce an amount of product equal to its own weight. With molecular machines, the time required would be something more like a minute.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.
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My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.
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It is important for us to be able to meet and greet the people that we serve. And if we start having police presence everywhere we go, it's going to create a chilling effect on discourse, and it creates an incredible assault on the democratic process.
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Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!
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I've loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Raceway Park in New Jersey. I think I got it from my father.
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As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally and not imagined how kids would talk. Always a big fan of Chris Columbus' dialogue and storytelling.
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Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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I had never watched a law show prior to being cast on The Practice.
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Monterey was the Maraschino cherry on top of the Sundae that was the '60s. It was totally unprecedented, and the audience was unprecedented in their joy.
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It's important for me to work with a strong director because I know I can go to some really deep places, I just need direction on how to get there.
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In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.
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I love the theater; the theater sort of raised me. So I'm quite sure I will go back to the theater. Right now I'm sort of captured in the all-consuming, fantastical world of movies.
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I posed as an album-cover designer and photographer... That I today have some album covers and photographs to show for myself is a monument to the attention-to-detail of my disguise.
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If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.
