Samuel Goldwyn Quotes
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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The lens of contract focuses predominantly on gains from trade whereas orthodoxy is focused on resource allocation.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight.
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I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.
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If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
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I will just generalise it that anything that I find too disgusting is not worth an answer.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.
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Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it's worth it. He's the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards.
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There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
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Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
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I worked also, doing things such as our paper route and, later on, waitressing.
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As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.
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I like getting 'Times' articles online. But the actual paper just has too many words.
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Spiritual growth is like childbirth: you dilate, then you contract, you dilate, then you contract again. as painful as it all feels, it's the necessary rhythm for reaching the ultimate goal of total openness.
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People never confess to failure. They should.
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I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I'm definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they're like when you take their preferred substance away.
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People sometimes ask me if I would not give anything to be white, I answer, in the words of the song, most emphatically, 'No.' How do I know what I might be if I were a white man? I might be a sand-hog, burrowing away and losing my health for $8 a day. I might be a street-car conductor at $12 or $15 a week. There is many a white man less fortunate and less well equipped than I am. In fact, I have never been able to discover that there was anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.
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A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
