Cecil B. DeMille (Cecil Blount DeMille) Quotes
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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You can be obsessed with makeup and hair products and, you know, your appearance and still be absolutely making smart life decisions and work on your smarts, develop your smarts by studying something like math. Then you'll make much better decisions on the brands of clothing that you buy or whatever it is that you want.
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The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.
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My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
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Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.
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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
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Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
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It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.
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With regard to Trump, he's saying some things that I just think are ridiculous and would disqualify any other candidate.
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He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all. Our forefathers threw off the yoke of Popery in religion; for you is reserved the honor of leveling the popery of politics. They opened the Bible to all, and maintained the capacity of every man to judge for himself in religion.
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The world is ever new to me; like an old friend loved through this and former lives, the acquaintance between us is both long and deep.
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Hope lies to mortalsAnd most believe her,But man's deceiverWas never mine.
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A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.
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Low-end disruption occurs when the rate at which products improve exceeds the rate at which customers can adopt the new performance.
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I knew there were a lot of friends out there, and I wanted to be with them.
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You can use your story, or your story can use you.
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There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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There was no animosity in the breakup of Soundgarden.
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I make my pictures for people, not for critics.
