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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We cling to the letter because the spirit is so much harder to master.
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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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No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship
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You must be sure that whatever health is brought to mankind it all comes from God.
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'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.
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The earth's warmth under me, as I stretch out at night, is astonishing. It is like the warmth of another body that has absorbed the sun all day and now gives out again its store of heat. It is softer, darker than I could ever have believed, and when I take a handful of it and smell its extraordinary odors, I know suddenly what it is I am composed of, as if the energy that is in this fistful of black soil had suddenly opened, between my body and it, as between it and the green stalks, some corridor along which our common being flowed.
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A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.