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'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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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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They're a great audience, kids. They actually respond. They don't have the references that adults have, so everything is immediate. It's always interesting to see what they react to in whatever I'm working on at the moment. And they don't even want to discuss why. That's a lesson to remember: My son doesn't care about why.
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Any time I get to go home is a joyous occasion.
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You don't go to Berkeley to become an actor. In fact, I don't think you go to any school to become an actor. You've just sort of got to go out there and act.
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Each man seeks his own interest, not the general interest. Let his own selfish interests be touched, and all concord is at an end.
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I used to get taxed on my allowance. Yeah, I've been taxed since I was a little kid. And at the end of the year I had to pick a charity to donate my taxes to.
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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.
