Amy Heckerling Quotes
I've always hated the way Hollywood has portrayed accountants. They're always little nerd balls, wimpy, afraid of everything. Growing up with accountants, I don't see them that way.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
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Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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My music is almost like vomit! It's a horrible way to put it, but I feel it, I say it, and I doubt myself all the time throughout my whole life, but when it comes to music, I just don't. I don't doubt myself.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
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The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.
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I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
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It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
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A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.
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Most people can't see beauty and love. I see our music as medicine.
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No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
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I was never hiding from being gay; I just never talked about it.
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And I definitely do that very British thing of, take things with a pinch of salt, stiff upper lip, you know what I mean?
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I've always hated the way Hollywood has portrayed accountants. They're always little nerd balls, wimpy, afraid of everything. Growing up with accountants, I don't see them that way.
