Dan Slott Quotes
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.
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I would love to learn how to dance. I can pick up choreography pretty well. But when you're dancing with your friends, I can't do that. I'm not a freestyler. It just doesn't come naturally to me. Clapping is my go-to dance.
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At the bottom of at least popular Marxism there has always been a kind of disgust with humanity as it is and a perfect faith in humanity as it is to be.
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Lying rumours do not penetrate farther than our ears.
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A few first rate research papers are preferable to a large number that are poorly conceived or half-finished. The latter are no credit to their writers and a waste of time to their readers.
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If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
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The stage is home, and there's no place like it.
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By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.
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Just making a good movie is hard to do.
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Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.
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I don't have the best feet.
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Starting a company in San Francisco when we did usually meant it was destined to be a data-driven tech company. But that didn't seem to fully encompass what we wanted with Airbnb. When we tried looking through a tech lens, it didn't work. The humanity was missing.
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I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.
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I love to sweat.
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Nationality is a very curious thing. The blood is Scots and the temperament is Scots, but I am, in fact, 100% American.
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That excitement on the court, I'm the same way off the court. I like to have fun, meet people; I like to give high-fives to the kids courtside. Just have fun. That's kind of my personality, that's how I've been.
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We know that we still have far to go; that we must more greatly build the security and the opportunity and the knowledge of every citizen, in the measure justified by the resources and the capacity of the land.
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A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the world. Away in the valley yonder among the corn and the poppies men may well forget all things except the warmth of the sun upon the face, and the kind shadow under the hedge; but he who journeys through storm and darkness must needs think and think.
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I'm not gonna worry about what people think about me. I'm too busy. I don't give a hoot.
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For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.
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I'm thinking of killing everyone whose name is a palindrome
