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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Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking about what word should follow another.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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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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If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
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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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The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
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It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.
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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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Like many New Englanders - he was a neighbor of Calvin Coolidge's in Northampton - he finds life a serious business. But he's never - well - heavy about it.
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All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.
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The agenda of burning embassies and treading on flags has its objective, of which seeking an apology for defaming our prophet is not among them at all.
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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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A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.
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We must not stint Our necessary actions in the fear To cope malicious censurers, which ever, As rav'nous fishes, do a vessel follow That is new-trimmed, but benefit no further Than vainly longing.
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To me, a purely good individual or purely bad individual, that's a comic book – that's a fantasy – and I don't do fantasy.
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When you see the best of the best - when you see a Matisse or a Picasso - what interests you is the creativity and harmony.
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If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
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Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.
