Hal Sparks Quotes
If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
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Change is no threat to culture.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I am fortunate: my parents told me the world was my oyster, when they could have said I wouldn't make it for a lot of reasons - rural, girl, small African country. So, no regrets.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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I didn't know what was going through my mind.
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I'm not a fan of soccer, for sure not.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.
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Politics is a good thing!
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I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.
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I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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We look back at the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments, where people screamed and hollered it's going to be too expensive, they couldn't afford it, and it wouldn't work. And it worked. It worked faster than people expected, at much less cost.
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Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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You have to live the mission... love what you do.
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The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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There are no ugly ducklings.
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If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
