Sam Raimi Quotes
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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3D prefers you to use wider lenses because when things are out of focus, and yet it's in 3D, it bothers you.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.
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If anyone should be executed, it should be Charles Manson. Do I go around during the daytime, 'Geez, I'm upset that he's alive'? No, I don't even think about him. I don't think about this case.
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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.
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If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation, it is not that God didn't care for them, but because you and I didn't give, were not an instrument of love in the hands of God, to give them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more Christ came in distressing disguise, in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child, and seeking for shelter.
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With each film, I try to outdo my previous films.
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In the back of my mind. I always knew WWE was where I should be and where I would end up. Or where I could end up. Where I deep-down wanted to end up.
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Family is the most important thing: you can't buy them with money.
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
