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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I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and I've always liked to. Even if I didn't understand it, I liked to.
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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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There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.
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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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As soon as you go into merchandising, everyone nods sagely and says, 'Ah, now we know why you are doing it.'
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Companies can change. Culture can change.
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When you turn your team upside down and try to figure out what the culture of the team is, you take the greatest risk a team can take.
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Companies have to nurture creativity and motivation-and have to do it by building a compassionate yet performance-driven corporate culture. In the knowledge economy the traditional soft people side of our business has become the new hard side.
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Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.
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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.
