Cecil B. DeMille (Cecil Blount DeMille) Quotes
The Ten Commandments are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law.
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.
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What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me – cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.
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Asia is changing, and China is changing. The 'Post' will have great opportunities. With its access to Alibaba's resources, data, and all the relationships in our ecosystem, the 'Post' can report on Asia and China more accurately compared with other media that have no such access.
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I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.
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I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props.
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No man can visualize four dimensions, except mathematically … I think in four dimensions, but only abstractly. The human mind can picture these dimensions no more than it can envisage electricity. Nevertheless, they are no less real than electro-magnetism, the force which controls our universe, within, and by which we have our being.
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I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.
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Jobs in technology have the rapidest rate of growth. The need for computer science is so incredibly large, and it's important that girls of all colors have the opportunity to move into that field.
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I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.
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People who go into show business are screwed up.
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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
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If you look at the first commercial transactions on the Internet, few of the early companies necessarily survived intact, but the ideas they invented became the industry.
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We had offers to go everywhere and we could have done them. But what would have been the point? We were tired. We had worked hard and needed a break before we got stale. We spent six months at home and writing songs.
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If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work.
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Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.
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Just remember that it’s your effort that’s going to really bring it together for you…. You will be happy because you will have then realized and fulfilled the destiny. That little speck, then will have become everything because it will have merged with infinity. It will have merged with the most incredible, most indescribable thing there is!
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Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.
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What seems good turns bad, what seems bad turns good. It is an endless cycle.
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Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced.
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Our generation is lost to the truth of God, to the reality of divine revelation, to the content of God's will, to the power of His redemption, and to the authority of His Word. For this loss it is paying dearly in a swift relapse into paganism.
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I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.
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The Ten Commandments are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law.
