Barack Obama Quotes
Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy. Leonard was a lifelong lover of the arts and humanities, a supporter of the sciences, generous with his talent and his time. And of course, Leonard was Spock. Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trek’s optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity’s future. I loved Spock.
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His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.
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I've found that if you just try to make the film you want, you'll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, you're going to make really boring films.
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My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.
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There's a big debate in the U.S. about immigration reform. We need to reflect on who's feeding this country today, why this community has been ignored.
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I am not interested in illustrating my time. A man’s 'time' limits him; it does not truly liberate him. Our age – it is of science – of mechanism – of power and death. I see no point in adding to its mammoth arrogance the compliment of graphic homage.
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Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.
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Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy. Leonard was a lifelong lover of the arts and humanities, a supporter of the sciences, generous with his talent and his time. And of course, Leonard was Spock. Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trek’s optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity’s future. I loved Spock.
