Dan Gutman Quotes
Sometimes we spend so much time and energy thinking about where we want to go that we don't notice where we happen to be.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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When I taught, the way in which we got evaluated is what I used to call the drive-by evaluation. Somebody would come in for 20 minutes with a checklist, and that would be your evaluation. So it was clearly a snapshot.
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
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Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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I am happy in Paris.
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I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.
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Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.
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Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.
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A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that they have little quality emotion and energy left for their children, much less their husbands.
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Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.
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Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body.
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As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.
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The more unconscious individuals, groups, or nations are, the more likely it is that egoic pathology will assume the form of physical violence. Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in which the ego attempts to assert itself, to prove itself right or another wrong. With very unconscious people, arguments can easily lead to physical violence.
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Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.
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It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.
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I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.
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What you think about you bring about.
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Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.
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The point of the future is that anything can happen.
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I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.
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If you look around us, there are an awful lot of men out there, and women, but mostly men, who believe that they have got a fast-track path to Heaven, if they do the things that they believe God is telling them to do, and I don't just mean Islamic people. I mean Fundamentalist Christians.
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Sometimes we spend so much time and energy thinking about where we want to go that we don't notice where we happen to be.
