Cecil B. DeMille (Cecil Blount DeMille) Quotes
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I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.
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When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
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I am an immigrant from Mexico. I came to the United States looking for a landscape where I could explore ideas freely and to test my entrepreneurial spirit.
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To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that you somehow change.
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Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
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Whenever something good happens to me, it's usually followed by something terrible.
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The purpose of computers is human freedom.
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Spirit is not a mystic concept. The spirit of a person is manifest in her aliveness, brightness of his eyes, in the resonance of her voice and in the ease and gracefulness of his movements. These qualities are related to and stem from a high level of energy in the body... Sensing the harmony between the internal pulsation of our body and that in the universe, we feel identified with the universal, with God. We are like tuning forks vibrating at the same pitch.
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Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.
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I'm a human being. I'm not a piece of property. I'm not a consignment of goods.
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They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.
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The most terrible of all things is terror.
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Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.
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O SON OF MAN! I loved thy creation, hence I created thee. Wherefore, do thou love Me, that I may name thy name and fill thy soul with the spirit of life.
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Words that may be firm in information can be soft in spirit.
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If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
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Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.
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Hope cherishes no illusions, nor does it yield to cynicism.
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The last thing you want is an injured actor. That, or having to use a stuntman too much.
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I used to like Barbra Streisand films. It was Funny Girl that really turned me on, in a sense, to acting. I remember it specifically being a rainy Saturday afternoon. I couldnt play football, so I stayed in, and I watched Funny Girl.
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Definitely we see throughout history that American teachers are asked to be very self-abnegating. They're not supposed to be concerned with the conditions of their labor, they're not supposed to care about pay. This is the kind of vision of the ideal teacher, which is again and again brought to the fore by reformers, the ideal teacher as someone who is passionately driven to serve children. Almost to the exclusion of a more pragmatic view of what the job actually entails.
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A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.
