George Stevens Quotes
It's fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man.
Quotes to Explore
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.
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I read a lot of true crime growing up – 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.
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CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.
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You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.
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I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
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Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.
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I remember speaking to a sheik who came back into the political system in late 2008, laid down his arms. His troops became part of the Sons of Iraq, the so-called Sunni Awakening.
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How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
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My mum believes in me almost more than I believe in myself.
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The presidency made John Adams an old man long before there was television. As early as the nation's first contested presidential election, with Adams and Jefferson running to succeed Washington, you had a brutal, ugly, vicious campaign that was divisive and as partisan as anything we're experiencing today.
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
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My definition of Man is, a Cooking Animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook....Man alone can dress a good dish; and every man whatever is more or less a cook, in seasoning what he himself eats.
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It's fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man.
