Lee Daniels Quotes
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You can't be a victim and heal.
A. J. Langer -
In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
E. L. Doctorow -
Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.
Walter Hill -
Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field.
Kate Winslet -
In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
Idi Amin -
The first wealth is health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff.
Ted Demme -
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
Gaston Bachelard -
I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
Jack Welch -
To do a studio film, something with Disney. My father is thrilled.
Sam Riley -
Sometimes the knowledge you've been given in school or by an elder - 'this is just the way it is' - keeps you from accomplishing because it traps you in a box in your mind and limits your freedom to deliver.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest. I'll be all right; I've got a few veg.
Margaret Drabble
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Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.
Arnold Schwarzenegger -
We don't know why, but there are some gradients of infection.
Luc Montagnier -
I grew up in Shanghai, a big urban city.
Jenova Chen -
I never dreamed that they would ask me to do a TV show. I'm the most surprised person of all.
Trisha Yearwood -
In Berlin... it's important to present a concert that will change their ears... so if you present a Tchaikovsky symphony, you get almost no audience.
Jan Vogler -
Stoller is one of my favorite comedic directors - one of my favorite directors that I've worked with to date.
Christopher Mintz-Plasse
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There's a dilemma over how to balance concrete economic interests with critical opinions on the state of human rights. It's the human rights that suffer, and that's a great price to pay.
Vaclav Havel -
When I first went out on the road with Larry Williams, there was also, like, The Coasters, The Drifters, and The Flamingos.
Aaron Neville -
For Luther judgment was a real problem, because everyone gets off on judgment, according to Luther. In fact you have to put a restraining order, a gag order, on those, and that's everyone, who want to judge everyone and everything at top speed. So that when you have a rush to judgment, ... it's also the rush of judgment. ... I'd like us to consider the libidinal investment that Luther sees in judgment and legislates against.
Avital Ronell -
Once a vegan, we are always so, because our motivation is not personal and self-oriented, but is based on concern for others and on our undeniable interconnectedness with other living beings.
Will Tuttle -
I'm not really vegan. I'm vegan-ish. I have a piece of lamb every now and then.
Lee Daniels