Lee Tamahori Quotes
Sex should not be in the movies and should be in the home, and violence should be in the movies and not in the home.
Quotes to Explore
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In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world.
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
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We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.
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I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.
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Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.
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I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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The weather in California is so much hotter than it is in England that it's absolutely changed my style. I have many more dresses and shorts than I ever thought I would coming from U.K.! It's so much easier to dress femininely in a warm climate.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
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I mean, I'm married first of all to one of, if not the most wonderful women in the world. She is everything - funny, attractive, hard-working, she has integrity, she loves me to bits.
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We are not safe and secure when the government uses us as pawns to perpetrate violence against others. Our safety and security will come when we organize, love, and resist together.
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I'm really proud of Gunsmoke. We put on a good show every week - one that families could all watch together without offending anyone.
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I grew up hearing that if it hadn't been for Ataturk, my grandmother would have been 'a covered person' who would have been reliant on a man for her livelihood. Instead, she went to boarding school, wrote a thesis on Balzac, and became a teacher.
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Sex should not be in the movies and should be in the home, and violence should be in the movies and not in the home.
