Confucius Quotes
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I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.
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I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.
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With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
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As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.
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Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?
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I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
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But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.
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I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison.
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If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.
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It's remarkable that the failures of the Obama, Clinton, Kerry foreign policy are not only uniting the Left and Right in Israel but might even be creating some common ground between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
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What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.
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I've lost love. I've tried to reclaim a lost love and didn't know how to do it.
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There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.
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I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I find a story that I really like I can probably get it done somewhat.
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Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.
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Sometimes I hear it in his voice, but anyway, at the end of the day he's the shiny bumper bar.
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Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.
