Cecil B. DeMille (Cecil Blount DeMille) Quotes
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.
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When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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What's amazing is that the Web enables you to build a kind of channel that wouldn't have made sense for cable, in the same way cable enabled you to build content that wouldn't have made sense for broadcast. You couldn't have done CNN with the broadcast networks; you couldn't have done MTV with the broadcast networks.
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From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
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Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.
Mandy Bujold -
Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
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I believe in peace-building in any kind of platform, be it a political platform like Parliament or negotiations like peace-building negotiations.
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One way to quantify the immigrant contribution to the overall economy is to measure their share of the U.S. economic output. One such examination for the years 2009-2011 found that immigrants contributed 14.7 percent of the total economic output.
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Whatever you are, you have the right to get married.
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I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.
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This volume was written for children. Miss Landon set out its purpose in the preface.
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2001 was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history; we are sundered from it forever by the moment when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on to the Sea of Tranquility. Now history and fiction have become inexorably intertwined.
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There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations.
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Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.
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Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.
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Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
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I've been reading comics since I was four. I used to get them when I would go grocery shopping with my mom. I remember getting the digest versions of old DC comics. The one that I remember reading first was Paul Levitz' 'Justice Society of America' stuff that he was doing in the '70s.
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The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.
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The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.
