Cecil B. DeMille (Cecil Blount DeMille) Quotes
After more than sixty years of almost daily reading of the Bible, I never fail to find it always new and marvelously in tune with the changing needs of every day.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
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Thirteen years I took on this last book.
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I had a small-town life - I worked at the local McDonald's for three years. I'm not sure why they kept me: I am something of a daydreamer and a dawdler, so they would only let me be the 'friendly voice' that greeted you when you entered the restaurant.
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I'm like half Brazilian and half American now.
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You don't even have to be able to talk. Just sing and get famous. 'Cause James Brown's been singin' 30 years. I don't know what the fuck James is talkin' about!
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Kings, like children, tend to be opportunistic. Generosity only spoils them. They equate affability with weakness and hasten to exploit it.
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I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a kid.
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My dad is an economist who does global development research. What he practices is a kind of quantifiable empathy: trying to empathize with systems rather than people.
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A lot of respect to people who do theatre, but I wouldn't make a good theatre actor is what I feel.
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Even good shows can fail to find an audience because they're drowned out by the noise and the sheer volume of everything that is being made. It's one of the downsides of there being, as I've argued, too many shows.
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The biggest thing I've learned is that it's not about me. All of the things that I do have to be about bringing service to the world and helping people shift their perception.
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A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.
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As a children's author, you get to advocate for reading and writing in general, in a way an adult author might not be able to. It's a really interesting dance we do to get literature into the hands of young people and to help them to become literate and become readers; we want them to grow up reading and continue to do so when they're adults.
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After more than sixty years of almost daily reading of the Bible, I never fail to find it always new and marvelously in tune with the changing needs of every day.
