Lawrence Bender Quotes
Honestly, when I had the idea to make 'An Inconvenient Truth,' and I was going out and raising the money, and I said, 'I want to make a movie about Al Gore's slide show, will you give me a million dollars?' People thought I was insane, looked at me cross-eyed.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
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I want to spend as much time as I can with my family, yet I'm aware of having to bring home the bacon.
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It's no surprise that I ended up in sportscasting. I lived this world with my father, Mike Storen. Dad was a sports executive for most of my childhood.
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What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold.
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Fashion definitely has the power to change the world.
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I never took any guitar lessons or anything; I never really learned to play covers. I'm actually happy that I never took lessons as a kid. Now, I'd like to take lessons to kind of go deeper. But I think sometimes lessons can steal a person's personality away, because they're trying to do things so technically.
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Honestly, when I had the idea to make 'An Inconvenient Truth,' and I was going out and raising the money, and I said, 'I want to make a movie about Al Gore's slide show, will you give me a million dollars?' People thought I was insane, looked at me cross-eyed.
