Norman Podhoretz Quotes
Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves.
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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I pity Americans for their very bad fruits. Your 'mango' is cucumber. The only thing I really miss about Egypt is mangoes.
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Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.
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When I wrote 'The Da Vinci Code,' I told myself that this story of Jesus makes more sense to me than the story I read in the Bible.
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I want anything I produce to be good for people kind enough to try it, but it's the momentum and process I enjoy most.
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I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.
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Someone's energy and aura and soul are so much more important - they don't compare to what you have on.
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Here is our opportunity and our challenge. If the nuclear powers are prepared to declare a truce, let us seize the moment to strengthen the institutions and procedures which will serve as the means for the pacific settlement of disputes among men.
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The thing with 'Peter Pan' is it's been done so well so many times.
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I shortly will introduce legislation banning the sale, manufacture or possession of handguns (with exceptions for law enforcement and licensed target clubs)... . It is time to act. We cannot go on like this. Ban them!
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It's impossible for me to feel like there's only one way to do a thing. There's nothing wrong with having one way of doing it, but I think it's a bad habit. I believe in range. Like, there's a lot of tunes that I play all the time-sometimes I hear 'em in a different register. And if you don't have complete freedom, or you won't let yourself get away from that one straight line, oh, my goodness, that's too horrible to even think about.
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God is so good.
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It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir.
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Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves.
