Samuel Goldwyn Quotes
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
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Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.
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I wish I could make multiple records, stylistically. The way that I'm gonna remedy that is to make a diverse record with a lot of different styles on one record.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.
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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.
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I loved all awards shows growing up, but of course, the Oscars was the biggest one.
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I voted to repeal the individual mandate in Obamacare... I think people appreciate the fact that they know where you stand.
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If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another's.
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If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.
