Samuel Goldwyn Quotes
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
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I just want to live on the road. I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night. If I'm not performing every night, I get totally depressed. I know that sounds really weird, but I hate sitting at home and not having a 1 A.M. performance now. It kills me.
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I never allow myself to be pressured.
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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
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If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty.
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To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
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I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.
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My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh.
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You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.
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I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I'm used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.
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I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
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I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.
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Adultery is the ultimate deal-breaker for me. I would rather be alone than in a relationship that doesn't honor me.
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Sometimes people have questioned whether I was making fun of the industry or just at myself. I'm just trying to raise a smile. Clothes aren't meant to be worshipped at a church altar.
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Might it not be that a great force that has always been thinking in terms of human needs, and that always will think in terms of human needs, has not been mobilized? Is it not possible that the women of the country have something of value to give the nation at this time?
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I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.
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Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.
