Nicolas Gomez Davila Quotes
Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
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I have a very small public.
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A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.
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All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
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A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.
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I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don't know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year.
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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
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We count on the FEC to be the public's watchdog.
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When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet.
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I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.
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When you're playing someone who has a strong ego about themselves, you can't play them when you have the opposite opinion of the one they have of themselves.
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But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that.
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During 'Chicago Hope,' I never let directors talk to me, because I was so spoiled. I started off with people like Milos Forman, Sidney Lumet, James Lapine, unbelievably gifted people. So there I was, saying, 'Don't talk to me, I don't want your opinion.' I behaved abominably.
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In my opinion, the biggest achievement was by Shankar-Jaikishan. With Raj Kapoor's 'Barsaat,' they changed the way we looked at playback singing.
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Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
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Don't let the opinions of others define who you are. Take them into consideration, make adjustments if necessary and then go be you!
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My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.
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I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.
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As for catching Osama, it's irrelevant. Things are going swimmingly in Afghanistan.
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Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion
