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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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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The books we call the New Testament were not gathered together into one canon and considered scripture, finally and ultimately, until hundreds of years after the books themselves had first been produced.
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I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.
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I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.
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Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
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The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.
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It's fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man.
