Barry Sonnenfeld Quotes
These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.
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We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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You have to recognize at some point that even though you have the passion and creative level to be able to do something, you might have to do a lot of prep. Sometimes you just can't do it as quickly as you want to do it.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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My parents wouldn't have sent me out into the world with wool over my eyes. You have to be aware, or you'll be swallowed.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.
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Life is near-death experience.
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Our house was like a hotel. It was a loony-tunes household. If you got arrested in high school, everyone knew: 'Call Mrs. Evans; she'll bail you out.'
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I wanted a baby of color, to be honest, because I wasn't attached to the idea that I look like the biological mother. I liked the idea of the adoption being clear; it was and is not something I am interested in hiding.
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Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th start, and I aim to mark the milestone with a cracking performance. It could even be celebrated with a victory.
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You bring people together with food. You connect them and tie the fabric of society together through food.
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These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
