Dean L. Larsen Quotes
Unless we retain a vibrant desire to be free, and unless we understand and practice the principles that give life to essential freedoms, we have little reason to hope they will endure.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
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See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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It's so lovely to know that people who you would never think know about Bollywood, they know about Bollywood.
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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
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It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent. Permanency gives job creators the certainty they need to plan and invest in their businesses, including hiring employees.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
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You just keep moving forward and doing what you do and hope that it resonates with people. And if it doesn't, you just keep moving on until you find a project that does.
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I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.
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The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness and love.
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Believe me, I understand the need for easy and speedy. After a 12-hour day of shooting 'Chopped,' say, I'm talking stir-fry, spaghetti, heck, peanut-butter sandwiches. But that's not about the joy of food. That's survival.
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The world has devolved into a much more hardened and lethal place since that devastating September morning when Islamists assassinated nearly 3,000 Americans in the worst terror attack on U.S. soil.
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By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.
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The fact is I don't lead a simple enough inner life. I indulge in excesses, bacchanalia of the spirit. Perhaps I identify too much with everything I read and study. Someone like Dostoevsky still shatters me.
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Love is what's left when you let go of everything you don't need.
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You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.
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Unless we retain a vibrant desire to be free, and unless we understand and practice the principles that give life to essential freedoms, we have little reason to hope they will endure.
