Fiorello LaGuardia Quotes
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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I'm cranky.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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I resent ever being stereotyped.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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Custom is second nature.
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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It has been distressing for the Wises and their family.
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I think I've interviewed probably 1,500 people in my 24-year business career.
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I always keep my options open. I always say, "Make me an offer and send me the script, and if it's something that I can connect to or relate to..." The character has to intrigue me, and the project overall has to intrigue me. And if it all lines up properly, then we can get into the business side of it. But it's always about the creative first.
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It's true that French are not very sophisticated in the sense that they don't dress up for dinners. They are not like Americans, where they are always perfect - the girls are not very sporty; they don't take care of themselves as much as Americans, who always have very white teeth and are so fit.
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If you control one house of Congress, you cannot abolish something like Obamacare, no matter how much pressure you apply.
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When I make a mistake, it's a beauty!
