Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
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When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.
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Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.
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I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?
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I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.
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I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.
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To the best of my knowledge, my youngest reader is 10 and the oldest is 95.
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When I'm around black or white people, I'm always in the middle. Especially when I am around black people; they will really tell how they feel about white people regardless of the fact that I'm also white and have white relatives. It's very interesting and can be really hard.
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The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist.
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
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AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
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People are clamoring to hear good ideas as opposed to the lesser of two evils... Either the Democrats are going to win or the Republicans are going to win, but the losers are all of us out here as citizens that really do want meaningful change, and none of it's happening. There's no dialogue regarding meaningful change.
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Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
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I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski -
I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.
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There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.
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Indeed, in a world of the BlackBerry, remote access and Wi-Fi hotspots on every street corner, it feels particularly outdated that much of our working culture is still dominated by the need to be at our desk for long hours of the day.
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Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them.
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People always ask me, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don't have an alibi.
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Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.
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Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
