Cecil B. DeMille (Cecil Blount DeMille) Quotes
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.
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Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
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I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.
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I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.
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'No matter how far our spiritual culture may continue to progress, no matter how much the natural sciences may grow, becoming ever more profound and more inclusive, no matter how much the human spirit may will to expand, that human spirit will never escape from the majesty and ethical sublimity of Christianity, as it shimmers and shines in the Gospels.'
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There is sadness and confusion in our hearts / And the world prepares to fight / as it tears itself apart, it isn't fair
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I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so they tend to be single dramas.
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.
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When you live and work in different time zones, you spend a lot of time on airplanes.
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Berry was a transitional and, to my mind, revolutionary black figure who had to find a place for the rage that the crucible of racism created.
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I love every type of candy. I love Skittles and Reeses. I love it all.
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I've gotten emails from people who purchased items from an infomercial, only to find out that the shipping was more expensive than the item itself. The lesson: If you truly want to order something you see on TV, go online to the product's website and see if you can find out more information.
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He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.
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When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs.
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I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.
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You could do a 'Les Mis'-type musical about Hamilton, but it would have to be 12 hours long, because the amount of words on the bars when you're writing a typical song - that's maybe got 10 words per line.
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Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.
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The replenishing thing that comes with a nap - you end up with two mornings in a day.
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You can't do anything for a person who is stuck between being happy and being miserable. All you can do is get trapped in the middle, and anyone in the middle just gets squished.' -Grandma
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A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.
