D. James Baker Quotes
Hurricanes Floyd and Irene were cruel reminders that hurricanes can produce tragic loss of life and devastating economic disruption from inland flooding beyond a hurricane's damaging wind, storm surge or tornadoes.
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I suppose I was a frustrated artist. I like fitting things together, and there are plenty of different ways to do that with real estate.
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I never understood the idea of canceling a show when you don't like the politics of a specific state.
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I knew you'd come,Claire.I knew you would.Dear God,you took your time.
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The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.
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I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What's the difference?
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He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again.
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When uncle Eddie does his impression of 'Like a Virgin' it's like Madonna is coming out of his body!' Christ what an image.
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Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.
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I recognize that Hollywood is not about seniority. Often it's not even a meritocracy. It's about what you did yesterday. You have a couple of misses, and suddenly it's impossible to find a hit. So the swings are gigantic. But I've always understood it as such, and navigated it as such.
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If you don't enjoy making work, then it's bad. It's rough. Artwork is brutal for so many people. They let it happen to them, but it's brutal. I like the idea of an artist as somebody who works. A lot of the artists I like share this understanding.
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"Big" government? Who wants that? I just want effective government. That means America's government needs to be big in some places, small in others and non-existent in others.
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Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.
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You can't force a movie to happen. Movies happen when they're supposed to happen. Everything happens in God's time. I really believe that.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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All the things we achieve are things we have first of all imagined.
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I'm aware of the street damage that occurred. That's in our plan to be repaired here in the next week and a half,
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Why didn't children ever see that they could damage and harm their parents as much as parents could damage and harm children?
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I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water.
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This planet might be able to support perhaps as many as half a billion people who could live a sustainable life in relative comfort. Human populations must be greatly diminished, and as quickly as possible to limit further environmental damage.
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Hurricanes Floyd and Irene were cruel reminders that hurricanes can produce tragic loss of life and devastating economic disruption from inland flooding beyond a hurricane's damaging wind, storm surge or tornadoes.
