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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As Americans after 9/11, we're much more united, together as a nation, and we got stronger, better, and more at peace. By peace, I mean the harmony you can feel in our united determination to fight these terrorists and killers.
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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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You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either an outside shot - a three-point shot - or a dunk.
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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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My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
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He was a junior, I was a senior.
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
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The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
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That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concert us. It is genuine nevertheless. Physical science stands as one of the great achievements of the human spirit.
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It's fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man.
