Les Baxter Quotes
I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit.
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I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
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I think that a lot of guys reach for electronics first, but the truth is that you can never keep up with electronics. You buy a flat-screen TV, and then six months later, there's one that has 3D and Blu-ray and all this business, and that is just going to keep continuing.
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We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.
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When I wrote 'Hatchet,' I knew that I was not re-inventing the wheel. That was never my intention. My goal was to make an '80s-style slasher flick that actually holds up. Basically, I wanted to make the movie that I wanted to see and pay no mind to current trends or conventions.
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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
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Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.
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Every four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts.
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I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.
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I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.
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Last I checked, the album was #82 out of the top 200 on the Billboard charts thanks to you all. I pray that keeps moving up and with your help it will.
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Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.
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I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.
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I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
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It's not the last one. Five's out, six is coming out in November, that's a single chapter, and then seven is the big horrifying one. And I think a couple after that to wrap the thing up.
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A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.
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California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
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So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!
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The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.
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Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom.
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I had a very funny family.
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Oculus version three or five or whatever it ends up being is something that can be used unplugged - we'd have our own Android stuff and all that - but you could plug it into the PC and use that.
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You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks... although the latter is much less realistic.
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Speech, not violence, is how we will bridge the divides between us.
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I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit.
