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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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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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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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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I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren’t.
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Muslim discourse is currently a tissue of myths, conspiracy theories, and exhortations to recapture the glories of the seventh century.
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There was no substitute for reality; one should be aware of imitations.
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If you're going to take a risk as a comic, make sure it's surrounded by other things that you're certain are funny.
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The press Yazoo were receiving were focused on the voice, This obviously was about trends.
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Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.
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I didn't even know that there was a startup culture, that there were events with people who built businesses. When I started meeting those people and going in to that world, I felt like I was among my people for the first time in my life.
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Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.
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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.
