Cecil B. DeMille (Cecil Blount DeMille) Quotes
Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!
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CEOs are worried they're going to get fired any minute. They're worried about their portfolios.
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Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.
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We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded.
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I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
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Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
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I had no idea 'The Dream Weaver' would be so successful. Everything just fell into place with that album. I pioneered a number of ideas with that album and subsequent tour. The all-keyboard approach with no guitars was a new one, and I was one of the first to use a drum machine in concert. It was an amazing time.
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Next to filmmaking and stuff like that, skiing is my favorite thing. I go skiing in Aspen - everywhere. I have been skiing since I was 4. I just love it. I feel so free.
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for. Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes. Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.
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Before a kid learns how to use a computer that can solve mathematical problems, he or she should know how to do arithmetic without a computer.
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If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they are safe. If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help another to better understand. If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another.
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I have a healthy respect for those individuals and the businesses that they represent. Their involvement only solidifies my belief that the United Way is a worthy organization to donate my time and efforts to.
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We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience, almost beyond our capacity at times, but something to be carried high.
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Dealing with the Liberals, it was like trying to grab quicksilver.
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There's a standard that we never let ourselves go below. We're our own worst critics.
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Mobster stories are always a harder sell for me. I don't romanticize organize crime the way others do, though I can be swayed.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
