Cecil Jacobson (Cecil Byran Jacobson) Quotes
I can't imagine any reasonably responsible person arguing against the abortion of mongols ... If we could tell what foetuses are going to be affected with cancer in their 40s and 50s, I would be for aborting them now.
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It's better to do a film that works.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
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I envision the script as a story in my mind, memorize the entire thing and have it play out. It helps me figure out where my character needs to go.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.
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College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.
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But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.
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I can't say that the ending of a story is always the best part of the story, and yet there's sort of this implicit idea that the finale is somehow supposed to be the mind-blowing best episode of a show. The question is: Why is that? Why do people make that assumption?
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History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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A great-great grandpa (there might be another great in there, I'm not sure) offered a gun and horse to anyone that would join the Confederacy in '64. Who cares if it was 1964. Give the guy a break. He had Alzheimer's and thought he was Jefferson Davis. (p. 5).
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What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
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And my parents' separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and treated me like an adult even when I was really young, so I knew they hadn't been getting on.
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Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.
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The Kwajalein waters are incredibly lucid: vision typically up to three hundred feet.
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I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father - who I had only recently met - died.
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No one wants to give up time with their family or entertainment, so they give up sleep instead.
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When you're doing eight shows a week, you don't have much of a personal life.
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My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.
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My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated.
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Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?
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Like millions of others, I have been plagued by the devastating effects of cancer hitting not one, but multiple members of my family.
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I can't imagine any reasonably responsible person arguing against the abortion of mongols ... If we could tell what foetuses are going to be affected with cancer in their 40s and 50s, I would be for aborting them now.
