Samuel Goldwyn Quotes
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
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Dramas make me laugh. The other day, I saw 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' and I was giggling the whole time. I laugh when I'm uncomfortable.
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Creation's highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.
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I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.
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I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre... It's funny - I don't have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week.
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The sense of jubilee for music and what we're making is always genuine.
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Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.
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Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.
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If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.
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Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.
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I was raised on movie sets, and I decided for myself at a very young age that it was what I wanted to do.
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Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
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I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all.
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One has to give a great deal of oneself to animals if one is to get the best out of them.
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We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
