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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Obviously, the fate of our own species concerns us disproportionately. But at the risk of sounding anti-human—some of my best friends are humans!—I will say that it is not, in the end, what’s most worth attending to. Right now, in the amazing moment that to us counts as the present, we are deciding, without quite meaning to, which evolutionary pathways will remain open and which will forever be closed. No other creature has ever managed this, and it will, unfortunately, be our most enduring legacy. The Sixth Extinction will continue to determine the course of life long after everything people have written and painted and built has been ground into dust and giant rats have—or have not—inherited the earth.
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I woke up and was walking on a mountain, and I thought, "What's the worst thing that humans could do to the planet? Make it uninhabitable for humans and kill wildlife."
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A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate.
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But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If you have ever looked on better days, If ever been where bells knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast, If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear, And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be. . . .
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Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It's not so much that you are the artist; you are the conduit.
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A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.
