Lee Daniels Quotes
I want to go to places that are unexpected of me because people really think they have me pegged.
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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Every company has to identify what I call its strategic resources, and make sure that it grabs as much of its strategic resources as possible.
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Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.
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I'm doing exactly what I always wanted to do, and I still like what I can do musically.
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Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien? It's odd because there's a little part of me that wants to write about exotic, strange bizarre subjects. Instead, I've rather reluctantly realised that what I write about is families.
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Day 1, when I was drafted to the Toronto Raptors, they had this stigma on them: Every guy leaves. Nobody wants to be here. Superstars, nobody wants to play in Canada. From Day 1, my whole mindset and approach to the game, being in Toronto, was I wanted to change that whole narrative to that whole organization.
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I was at a book convention, in a cab. On one side of me was Arthur Schlesinger; on the other side was William Manchester - real heavyweights. All they were doing was asking me about Charles Manson. The only thing that enables me not to be bored is the people talking about it - they're so interested.
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I want to go to places that are unexpected of me because people really think they have me pegged.
