Winston Groom Quotes
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.
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I'm not gonna name names, but sometimes when reporters are talking, it gets a little boring because I don't have any jokes to tell because the questions are so serious.
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When anyone recognizes you on the street, they are always very nice and genuine and excited to meet you.
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The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
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I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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My parents were Zionists born in Poland. My father was a rabbi who didn't know much about science and ran a grocery store in the neighborhood with my mother's help.
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I have a wonderful family: My parents are churchgoing, salt-of-the-earth Southern people. They gave me a lot of love and are so unaffected by fame.
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I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah movies.' I find it incredibly boring.
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I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.
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The migratory phenomenon exists, and Europe will have to face it together. The only alternative is a 'beggar-thy-neighbor' solution, in which countries try to load the problem off on their neighbors.
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I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
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I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place.
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I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.
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I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.
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I talk to the universe all the time.
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In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.
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I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.
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I'm just going to say I'm not gay. I really, really like women. That's all I can really say about that.
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In the 1980s, there were occasions when it made sense to say, 'it is too difficult to maximize the likelihood function, and besides if we do, it will blow our model out of the water.'
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Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.
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I've never been on a TV show for more than a season and you have to continually keep it interesting and you have to keep it connected, even as you change.
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And that's all I've got to say about that.
