Samuel Goldwyn Quotes
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There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.
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I'm going to continue to work to be the best player in the world, and whenever that doesn't sound fun to me anymore, that's when it's over.
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The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
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Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand.
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.
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Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
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Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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It was gradually learned that acceptance of a somewhat higher inflation rate would not really bring somewhat higher employment.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
