Alan Ladd Quotes
I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else.
Quotes to Explore
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better things to do.
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Actually, the fun part was not knowing what the heck I was going to be doing.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
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What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
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I try to cook dinner, but it's difficult when I'm working.
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I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.
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History reminds us that walls can be torn down. But the task is never easy. True partnership and true progress requires constant work and sustained sacrifice. They require sharing the burdens of development and diplomacy; of progress and peace. They require allies who will listen to each other, learn from each other and, most of all, trust each other.
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Looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of property which has suffered some damage.
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Since the 1950s, the key equation of quantum gravity has been called the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. Bryce DeWitt and John Wheeler wrote it down, but in all the time since then, no one had been able to solve it. We found we could solve it exactly, and in fact we found an infinite number of exact solutions.
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I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
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'Shitty things are always simple. Same as great things. Patrick Standish, in conversation.'
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The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.
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I ripped off half my hair with a waxing strip, and it didn't grow back for, like, 5 months.
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When I do a play, it's like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
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No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us.
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I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.
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You will wonder how it was possible for me to endure the same kind of “tomorrow the world” talk that had sent me running away from Hainburg. The answer is simply that I had run out of places to run away to. Surrounded by a population that had been completely sold on monstrous ideas, I simply retreated down, down, down, trying to live in imitation of the German writer Erich Kästner, whom I had always admired and who responded to the Nazi years with what was called “internal emigration.” The soul withdrew to a rational silence. The body remained there in the madness.
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Put on a sweater and really great sneakers with a big scarf, and you'll look so stylish. For me, they are an everyday essential.
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I just think Radiohead are f-in' miserable bastards.
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I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else.
